Each subsystem Java™ servlet supports a parameter called xml, which can have a value of either true or false. This parameter sets what kind of data the servlet returns; by default all of the subsystem interfaces, like the agent services page or the end-entities page, returns data in HTML.

Setting the xml with a value of true returns XML data. This XML information is useful for writing scripts that interact with the server.

The xml parameter is appended to the end of the interface link. For example, the server returns an HTML page when the following link is accessed:

https://server.example.com:9443/ca/ee/ca/displayBySerial?op=displayBySerial&serialNumber=0x1

Appending xml=true to the end of the link returns the same page in XML:

https://server.example.com:9443/ca/ee/ca/displayBySerial?op=displayBySerial&serialNumber=0x1&xml=true