Help:Remote request

The remote request is a feature that was introduced with to make it easy to share and consolidate query results from remote sources.CiteRef::gh:smw:3167

Remote source
The feature requires to be configured. The following entry schema for targets to be selectable as remote sources must be followed:


 * The source name can be an arbitrary string. Above example identifies  as the source.
 * The  parameter to the remote destination.
 * The  parameter indicating the "time to live" in seconds ensures that requests to a remote destination are cached and avoid creating unnecessary requests to the source for the specified duration. In the above example it is set to 1 hour (60 x 60 = 3600 seconds).
 * This configuration parameter can be used to define multiple remote sources.

Remote request
Once a list of sources is available, embedded queries as well as queries executed via will have access to the   parameter and can request a remote execution. For example:

Remote response
By default any public wiki using Semantic MediaWiki is able to respond to a remote request which can be disabled, if necessary. It should be noted that disabling has only an administrative blocking effect with any public wiki allowing access to the despite being disabled for a remote request.

Removing option  from  will block remote requests.

Note
The remote request feature provided by uses direct raw access to  while the  uses the API.CiteRef::gh:smw:3167:451687962