Disable basic authentication

wolfgang_freund — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:35:13 GMT

Hi there,hope the community can help. I am working on a development system, and i do create some web scripts. My Version is Alfresco Community 3.4When I now list the webscripts via the url http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/index, i always need authentication via [alf_ticket]. I am not even able

Re: Disable basic authentication

kevinr — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:30:36 GMT

In a word, yes.

The authentication for a script is set the descriptor file, for example the index.get.desc.xml script:

<webscript>
  <shortname>Web Scripts Home</shortname>
  <description>Web Scripts Home</description>
  <url>/</url>
  <url>/index</url>
  <authentication>admin</authentication>
  <lifecycle>internal</lifecycle>
</webscript>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

has authentication=admin - which is why you are prompted for login. So to disabled that, you just need overrides for the both the .get (retrieve index page) and .post (refresh index page i.e. Refresh Web Scripts command) scripts.

So add a new file called index.get.desc.xml to: \<your alfresco tomcat>\shared\classes\alfresco\extension\templates\webscripts\org\springframework\extensions\webscripts

<webscript>
  <shortname>Web Scripts Home</shortname>
  <description>Web Scripts Home</description>
  <url>/</url>
  <url>/index</url>
  <authentication>none</authentication>
  <lifecycle>internal</lifecycle>
</webscript>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

and a new file called index.post.desc.xml to the same folder:

<webscript>
  <shortname>Web Script Maintenance</shortname>
  <description>Maintain index of Web Scripts</description>
  <url>/index?reset={reset?}</url>
  <url>/?reset={reset?}</url>
  <authentication>none</authentication>
  <lifecycle>internal</lifecycle>
</webscript>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

and refresh your webscripts or restart the server. You will no longer need admin privileges to execute a refresh or view the index page.

Kev

Re: Disable basic authentication

wolfgang_freund — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:05:16 GMT

Thanks a lot. Now it works.

Re: Disable basic authentication

kevinr — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:25:07 GMT

Excellent, please mark the topic as Solved.

Kev

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