Quick Start
Set up your environment and discover your first source using the Oracle Managed File Transfer REST API by performing the following tasks.
Step 1: Obtain Account Information
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The username and password for your Oracle Managed File Transfer account.
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The URL of your Oracle Managed File Transfer instance.
 
Step 2: Install cURL
The examples within this document use the cURL command-line tool to demonstrate how to access the Oracle Managed File Transfer REST API.
To connect securely to the server, you must install a version of cURL that supports SSL and provide an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate file or bundle to authenticate against the Verisign CA certificate. For more information about:
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Using cURL, see Use cURL.
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Authentication, see Authentication.
 
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In your browser, navigate to the cURL home page at http://curl.haxx.se and click Download in the left navigation menu.
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On the cURL Releases and Downloads page, locate the SSL-enabled version of the cURL software that corresponds to your operating system, click the link to download the ZIP file, and install the software.
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Navigate to the cURL CA Certs page at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html and download the cacert.pem SSL CA certificate bundle in the folder where you installed cURL.
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Open a command window, navigate to the directory where you installed cURL, and set the cURL environment variable,
CURL_CA_BUNDLE, to the location of an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate bundle. For example:C:\curl> set CURL_CA_BUNDLE=cacert.pem 
You are now ready to send requests to Oracle Managed File Transfer using cURL.
Step 3: Discover Your First Source
Use a cURL command such as the following to discover an MFT source named src1: 
curl -u jsmith:welcome1 -H "Content-Type:application/json"
 -H "Accept:application/json"
 -X GET http://example.com/mftapp/rest/v1/sources?searchFilter=src1