The mod_httapi configuration file is found in conf/autoload_configs and is named httapi.conf.xml. It contains several settings parameters as well as a profiles section. The example configuration contains a default HTTAPI profile or you may create your own profiles.
Inside the profile tag you will notice a number of param entries. These control things such as default settings for various work actions, permissions control (see the following sections), and the default URL to use for HTTP requests.
You might recall the gateway-url parameter from the mod_xml_curl configuration in Chapter 9, Moving Beyond the Static XML Configuration, and how mod_xml_curl would use it to get its configuration from the web server. In mod_httapi, there's an identical gateway-url parameter that FreeSWITCH can use as a base URL to which information can be pushed and from which information can be pulled, namely a web server. As httapi is a Dialplan application, we also have the ability to...