# Integration Requirements

This page defines the technical standards, security protocols, and operational requirements that apply across all SMX API components. These requirements ensure reliable, secure, and efficient connectivity between your application and the SiteMinder platform.

### Compliance Policy

All integration partners must adhere to these requirements. Due to the growing number of partner integrations, SiteMinder can no longer accommodate exceptions.

**Non-Compliance Timeline**:

* Partners have **90 days** to remediate non-compliance issues after notification.
* Failure to comply may result in interface deactivation.
* **Critical issues** affecting production stability may result in **immediate temporary suspension**.

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### Endpoints <a href="#endpoints" id="endpoints"></a>

DNS TTL should be respected. IP addresses should not be cached indefinitely by the connecting application. Doing so will result in connection timeouts.

### Response Time <a href="#response-time" id="response-time"></a>

Response time should not exceed 1000ms.

### Content-Type <a href="#content-type" id="content-type"></a>

The ‘Content-Type’ for all `SOAP` XML messages must be `application/xml; charset=utf-8`.

### SSL/TLS

Apps API supports TLSv1.2 and above.\
SiteMinder does not support self-signed SSL certificates.

### Security <a href="#security" id="security"></a>

Encryption is provided by the transport layer via HTTPS. Each message contains a WS-Security (WSSE) UsernameToken SOAP header for authentication/authorization purposes. Each connecting Application must provide a **secure** web service endpoint to receive the reservation notifications.

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