topic Validating tickets via REST API in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/validating-tickets-via-rest-api/m-p/279314#M232444 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm building a client library for my alfresco installation using the apache HttpClient library. I've run into a small problem I can't seem to figure out. I am requesting a ticket for the API using a request as such: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />new HttpGet("<A href="http://www.myserver.com:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?u=me&amp;pw=mypassword" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.myserver.com:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?u=me&amp;pw=mypassword</A>")<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>from this I get can get a ticket by parsing the response and then saving the ticket in a text file:</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE>TICKET_1a1246e2f2704fd85fdd73f23fcc1c4493772a91<SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>if i then make another request to the application to validate the ticket, like I would with a browser,&nbsp; with :</SPAN><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />new HttpGet("<A href="http://www.myserver.com:8080/alfresco/service/api/login/ticket/TICKET_1a1246e2f2704fd85fdd73f23fcc1c4493772a91" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.myserver.com:8080/alfresco/service/api/login/ticket/TICKET_1a1246e2f2704fd85fdd73f23fcc1c4493772a91</A>")<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I get an error back stating that I need to be authenticated to make this request. Is there a way in the REST API i can do this? I presume that the application is saving some other authentication information in a session cookie when doing this sort of request? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Don</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 May 2013 17:12:22 GMT dm_nypl 2013-05-16T17:12:22Z Validating tickets via REST API https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/validating-tickets-via-rest-api/m-p/279314#M232444 Hello,I'm building a client library for my alfresco installation using the apache HttpClient library. I've run into a small problem I can't seem to figure out. I am requesting a ticket for the API using a request as such: new HttpGet("http://www.myserver.com:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?u=me&amp; Thu, 16 May 2013 17:12:22 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/validating-tickets-via-rest-api/m-p/279314#M232444 dm_nypl 2013-05-16T17:12:22Z Re: Validating tickets via REST API https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/validating-tickets-via-rest-api/m-p/279315#M232445 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Sorry… got it working</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="language-none line-numbers"><CODE><BR />new HttpGet("<A href="http://www.myserver.com:8080/alfresco/service/api/people/me/ticket/TICKET_1a1246e2f2704fd85fdd73f23fcc1c4493772a91" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.myserver.com:8080/alfresco/service/api/people/me/ticket/TICKET_1a1246e2f2704fd85fdd73f23fcc1c4493772a91</A>")<BR /><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN></CODE></PRE></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 May 2013 17:43:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/validating-tickets-via-rest-api/m-p/279315#M232445 dm_nypl 2013-05-16T17:43:01Z