topic Re: Authenticate a webscript session with URL parameters in Alfresco Archive

Authenticate a webscript session with URL parameters

tonyc — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:57:11 GMT

Hello, I have developed a webscript that gets a document by doc_id (custom property), the problem is that I -have- to make this webscript also authenticate the session.I cannot use SSO, and the user shouldn't type in the user/password. The user/password must be in the URL, which is generated for t

Re: Authenticate a webscript session with URL parameters

amarendra_thaku — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:32:14 GMT

you can get the alfresco ticket from the session and pass the ticket in the URL query string

model.ticket = session.getTicket(); and then

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/getDoc?doc_id=12345&user=user&password=password&alf_ticket=ticket

Regards
Amarendra

Re: Authenticate a webscript session with URL parameters

tonyc — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:54:36 GMT

Amerendra,

The session wouldn't be authenticated so there wouldn't be a ticket I dont think.. I am trying to get the webscript to authenticate the session with the URL params.