topic Re: How to disable basic authentication for web scripts in Alfresco Archive

How to disable basic authentication for web scripts

jduke — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:28:09 GMT

Hello everyone.I am looking for a way to disable the basic authentication that happens automatically for web scripts when they require authentIication.I am developing a custom web application which is backed by a number of web scripts which require an authenticated user. However, rather than relying

Re: How to disable basic authentication for web scripts

stevegreenbaum — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:57:06 GMT

Have you tried setting the authentication parameter on the web script to "none".

<webscript>
<shortname> Sample</shortname>
<description>Sample</description>
<url>/sample/args</url>
<authentication>none</authentication>
</webscript>

Re: How to disable basic authentication for web scripts

zaizi — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:37:25 GMT

How are you building your custom web application? If you app is calling webscripts with a key how is the user's browser getting a 401. Surely your app would just throw an error about not being able to call the web script. You'll need to code your code that calls the webscripts to respond to a challenge request. Alternatively, use Surf framework to build your custom web app as it has built in credential vault to deal with authentication issues like this.

Ainga

Re: How to disable basic authentication for web scripts

chandu7ee — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:42:53 GMT

There are 4 levels of authentication for webscripts:

1.None—The Web script does not require any authentication to be invoked.
2.Guest—The Web script may be invoked by a guest user of the Alfresco Content Application Server.
3.User —The Web script must be invoked by a named user known to the Alfresco Content Application Server.
4.Admin – The Web script must be invoked by a named user who is an administrator of the Alfresco Content Application Server.

Thanks.

Re: How to disable basic authentication for web scripts

rafaelscg — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:23:47 GMT

You can pass the URL of your webapp with ALF_TICKET like:

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/mywebscript?[ALF_TICKET]‍

You can get this ticket from:

/alfresco/service/api/login?u=<uname>&pw=<pwd>‍

Let us know if this works for you.