# Direct Socket Connection in CloverETL
**URL:** https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/direct-socket-connection-in-cloveretl/1035
**Category:** CloverDX Platform
**Created:** [March 24, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/direct-socket-connection-in-cloveretl/1035 "2012-03-24T00:00:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jed\_uretlguy](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/jed_uretlguy)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/direct-socket-connection-in-cloveretl/1035/1 "2012-03-24T00:00:00Z")
Hi All,
I would like to ask if it’s possible to establish a direct socket connection in CloverETL. If yes, what component to be used? I am doing an integration now with Fishbowl Inventory. I asked their development team, they said that Fishbowl is using socket connection and accepts XML calls to its API, and I have no idea how to set this up in my CloverETL graphs.
I would really appreciate if there’s someone who can help me with this. I’ve been working for this more than a week now.
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@David\_Hlidek](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/David_Hlidek)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2012, 8:30am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/direct-socket-connection-in-cloveretl/1035/2 "2012-03-27T08:30:26Z")
Hi jed\_urETLguy,
aren’t they using HTTP protocol? If yes, then you can use HttpConnector.
There is no support for direct socket connection in Clover. But you can consider:
\* prepare/use existing commandline accessor utility (via SystemExecute)
\* prepare own Clover component in Java
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### Author:  [@jed\_uretlguy](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/jed_uretlguy)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/direct-socket-connection-in-cloveretl/1035/3 "2012-03-29T04:26:27Z")
Hi,
Thanks much kubosj for replying to my previous queries. I really appreciate it. I have another question though.
I have some PHP codes here running in my XAMPP server. I use this PHP codes to call for Fishbowl’s API requests and get some responses. Running those codes, I was able to pull the data I need from Fishbowl’s server. I tried using HTTP Connector in Clover to get those data being returned by my codes from my localhost, however it’s not getting any data.
I have a sample URL below that I used to feed to my HTTP Connector component:
[http://localhost/phpapi/exportProducts.php](http://localhost/phpapi/exportProducts.php)
Once again, the exportProducts.php , when this is run, this will send request to Fishbowl’s server and get the response, which is the data that I need to pull from my Clover, but it will return an error in Clover. The error looks like below:
\ \ Object not found!
# Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server.
If you entered the URL manually please check your
spelling and try again.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the [webmaster](mailto:postmaster@localhost).
## Error 404
localhost
3/29/2012 1:30:03 PM
Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod\_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod\_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1