HTTP connections

Preview — HTTP connections

This feature is subject to the "Pre-GA Offerings Terms" in the General Service Terms section of the Service Specific Terms. Pre-GA features are available "as is" and might have limited support. For more information, see the launch stage descriptions.

This page describes HTTP connections in Developer Connect. Platform administrators can use this information to learn key concepts and decide when to use this type of connection.

Introduction

An HTTP connection is a Developer Connect feature that lets you create and maintain connections to arbitrary HTTP endpoints, which you can grant a service account permissions to use.

With an HTTP connection, there doesn't need to be a user present who authorized the connection when the connection is invoked. For example, with an HTTP connection to a Confluence document, Gemini Code Assist RAG service can use the connection to access that documented when needed.

Benefits

By maintaining a link to an arbitrary resource accessible using an HTTP-based API, Developer Connect handles authentication to that resource every time a Google Cloud service (such as Gemini Code Assist) accesses it.

Developer Connect guides you through setting up authentication to that resource.

What's next

• Set up an HTTP connection.