Apex Developer Guide

Apex Developer Guide
Getting Started with Apex
Writing Apex
Running Apex
Invoking Apex
Apex Transactions and Governor Limits
Using Salesforce Features with Apex
Integration and Apex Utilities
Invoking Callouts Using Apex
Adding Remote Site Settings
Named Credentials as Callout Endpoints
SOAP Services: Defining a Class from a WSDL Document
Invoking HTTP Callouts
Using Certificates
Generating Certificates
Using Certificates with SOAP Services
Using Certificates with HTTP Requests
Callout Limits and Limitations
Make Long-Running Callouts from a Visualforce Page
JSON Support
XML Support
Securing Your Data
Encoding Your Data
Using Patterns and Matchers
Debugging, Testing, and Deploying Apex
Apex Language Reference
Appendices
Glossary
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Using Certificates

To use two-way SSL authentication, send a certificate with your callout that was either generated in Salesforce or signed by a certificate authority (CA). Sending a certificate enhances security because the target of the callout receives the certificate and can use it to authenticate the request against its keystore.

To enable two-way SSL authentication for a callout:

  1. Generate a certificate.
  2. Integrate the certificate with your code. See Using Certificates with SOAP Services and Using Certificates with HTTP Requests.
  3. If you’re connecting to a third party and using a self-signed certificate, share the Salesforce certificate with them so that they can add the certificate to their keystore. If you’re connecting to another application within your organization, configure your Web or application server to request a client certificate. This process depends on the type of Web or application server you use.
  4. Configure the remote site settings for the callout. Before any Apex callout can call an external site, that site must be registered in the Remote Site Settings page, or the callout fails.

    If the callout specifies a named credential as the endpoint, you don’t need to configure remote site settings. To set up named credentials, see “Define a Named Credential” in the Salesforce Help.