topic Invoke share webscript from external software in a authenticated way in Alfresco Archive

Invoke share webscript from external software in a authenticated way

3acascia — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:05:34 GMT

Hi All,is it possibile to invoke custom web script from external software in a authenticated way?How to deal with authentication mechanism? As I understood, Alf_ticket seems to be not recognized from Share…Is cookie (JSESSIONID) the only allowed mechanism?Thanks in advances,Toma

Re: Invoke share webscript from external software in a authenticated way

michaelböckling — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:05:28 GMT

Hi,

it depends what you try to do. You can use SSO with NTLM or Kerberos, or obtain a ticket via the http://alfrescoserver/alfresco/s/api/login API, but in that case you need the password.
What you want is the ticket, not necessarily the JSESSIONID.

Cheers,
Michael

Re: Invoke share webscript from external software in a authenticated way

3acascia — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:26:56 GMT

Hi Michael,
thanks you for your reply.
What I want to try to do, is call a site-webscript declared in Share in an authenticated way using alf_ticket obtained invoking http://alfrescoserver/alfresco/s/api/login.
It seems that it doesn't work…

Thanks in advance,
Toma

Re: Invoke share webscript from external software in a authenticated way

michaelböckling — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:07:31 GMT

Hi Toma,

does this work:

1. call:
http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?u=admin&pw=admin

2. extract the ticket (looks like TICKET_29ced6613a114294fa4bb9e67bf663112076f3d9)

3. validate the ticket: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/api/login/ticket/TICKET_29ced6613a114294fa4bb9e67bf663112076f3d9?alf_ticket=TICKET_29ced6613a114294fa4bb9e67b663112076f3d9

Do you get 200/OK response? Can you call other repository webscripts with that ticket?

Best regards,
Michael Böckling