> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.alumio.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# HTTP

> Provides access to files through HTTP.

export const FormField = ({property, label, required = false, diType, uiPatterns, children}) => {
  const patterns = Array.isArray(uiPatterns) ? uiPatterns : uiPatterns ? [uiPatterns] : [];
  return <div style={{
    margin: '1.5rem 0'
  }}>
      <div style={{
    display: 'flex',
    alignItems: 'baseline',
    flexWrap: 'wrap',
    gap: '0.5rem',
    marginBottom: '0.25rem'
  }}>
        <strong>{label}</strong>
        <span style={{
    fontSize: '0.7rem',
    fontWeight: 600,
    textTransform: 'uppercase',
    letterSpacing: '0.04em',
    color: required ? '#6241f5' : '#6b7280'
  }}>
          {required ? 'Required' : 'Optional'}
        </span>
      </div>

      <div>{children}</div>

      {diType || patterns.length > 0 ? <p style={{
    fontSize: '0.85rem',
    color: '#6b7280',
    marginBottom: 0
  }}>
          {diType ? <>
              See the <a href={`/references/${diType}`}>{diType}</a> reference.{' '}
            </> : null}
          {patterns.length > 0 ? <>
              Accepts a <a href={`/documentation/placeholders-and-patterns/patterns#${patterns[0]}`}>pattern</a>.
            </> : null}
        </p> : null}
    </div>;
};

Read files over HTTP, treating a web address as if it were a filesystem. Use this when files you need are served from a website or web service, for example a feed or export published at a fixed URL. The connection reuses one of your HTTP API connections, so the address, headers, and any authentication are configured there.

This documentation describes: [Schema](/schemas/filesystem/http)

## Fields

<FormField property="client" label="HTTP API connection" diType="http-client">
  The HTTP API connection used to fetch files. Pick or create the connection that points at the website or service the files come from; its address and authentication settings are reused here. Leave empty to use the default HTTP API connection.
</FormField>

<FormField property="logger" label="Logger" diType="filesystem-logger">
  Selects how file activity on this connection is recorded, so you can trace which files were read or written.
</FormField>

## Sample data

A connection that reads files through an existing HTTP API connection named `feeds-api`.

| Field               | Value       |
| ------------------- | ----------- |
| HTTP API connection | `feeds-api` |

```json Configuration theme={null}
{
  "prototype": "http",
  "parameters": {
    "client": "feeds-api"
  }
}
```