AS2

AS2 is a secure protocol for transmitting structured business data over the internet using HTTP/S and digital certificates.

Frends offers seamless integration with AS2, enabling you to securely exchange structured business data such as EDI or XML over the internet. AS2 provides message encryption, digital signatures, and receipt acknowledgments (MDNs), ensuring both confidentiality and integrity of your transmissions.

By leveraging Frends' task-based approach, you can configure and customize AS2 integrations according to your specific requirements. Frends has tasks for both sending and validating AS2 messages.

Use cases

Below you will find examples of typical use cases for AS2 and how they could be implemented in Frends.

Validating and parsing AS2 messages

By using the HTTP trigger in conjunction with the ValidateAndParse task, we can build an integration that listens for incoming AS2 traffic. The incoming message is verified, the payload is extracted, and an MDN is generated and can be returned to the sender.

ValidateAndParse

Sending AS2 messages

We can create an integration that picks up EDI, XML or any other documents from a specified path, wraps them in an AS2 envelope, encrypts and signs them, and securely transmits them to the partner system.

SendMessage