topic Re: Accessing Share from external application with Token in Alfresco Archive

Accessing Share from external application with Token

enrico_it — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 08:04:24 GMT

Hi!I'd like to open share's document library from an external application, using an alfresco token (We work with alfresco 4.2d).The external application uses Alfresco's webscripts for authentication.From what I got from similar posts in the forum, Share doesn't understand the token passed as URL par

Re: Accessing Share from external application with Token

niketapatel — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 04:56:52 GMT

I would suggest to enable external authentication.This would allow alfresco to accept external authentication token
From your external application, You can set logged in user as Proxy user and this username will be carried through HTTP header.

Other option, You can do is Pre-authorized call using alf_ticket in your webscript URL.

Re: Accessing Share from external application with Token

enrico_it — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 05:28:42 GMT

Thank you for your reply.
the alf_ticket method works well when you need to authorization with webscripts, but It doesn't work if you want to open Share's document library or another share's page.
I think I will try the external authentication way.
Thanks!