topic Using http session Id to authenticate to web services in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-http-session-id-to-authenticate-to-web-services/m-p/251997#M205127 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I need to achieve the following scenario in Alfresco Share:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>1. The user logs to Alfresco Share(using login and password),</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2. The user creates a document and adds binary content to the document,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>3. The user converts(using a java applet) the document content(my special conversion) and stores the modified version in a custom aspect property of type d:content</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- the java applet needs to be called from a custom document action,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- the java applet uses Alfresco web services to read and store converted content,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>- the user is supposed to insert his login and password only once(when logging to Share)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>So I can`t use the user password or ticket to authenticate from an applet to web services.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In my opinion the best solution is to use an existing http session Id to authenticate from a java applet to Alfresco web services.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How can I achieve this?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Do I have to write custom authentication class and add it to alfresco?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:49:18 GMT pucfg1 2010-11-09T07:49:18Z Using http session Id to authenticate to web services https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-http-session-id-to-authenticate-to-web-services/m-p/251997#M205127 Hi all,I need to achieve the following scenario in Alfresco Share:1. The user logs to Alfresco Share(using login and password),2. The user creates a document and adds binary content to the document,3. The user converts(using a java applet) the document content(my special conversion) and stores the m Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:49:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-http-session-id-to-authenticate-to-web-services/m-p/251997#M205127 pucfg1 2010-11-09T07:49:18Z Re: Using http session Id to authenticate to web services https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-http-session-id-to-authenticate-to-web-services/m-p/251998#M205128 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi I'm also trying to reuse an existing sessio to log in and use soap services somehow like AuthenticationUtils.startSession("admin", "adminpwd"); to get the WebServiceFactory.get"servicename" services in my java class, what's the right approach to do this by usen the current logged user's login/pwd and not having to hardcode the admin's?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:22:19 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/using-http-session-id-to-authenticate-to-web-services/m-p/251998#M205128 flopez 2011-03-31T20:22:19Z