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irach15's avatar
irach15
Maven
5 years ago

cUrl call to get data

hey, sorry for simple questions to all API gurus 😉 I just started using cUrl for getting API data, somehow after working years as Admin and Dev never has been needed... Being said, I want to unde...
irach15's avatar
irach15
Maven

CarolineS 

tried

- non-SSO user created

- signed on to Postman

- run Post request with user name & psw

- no luck

<response status="error">
    <error code="302">
        <message>
      User authentication failed.
    </message>
    </error>
</response>

 

CarolineS's avatar
CarolineS
Boss
5 years ago

Hi irach15 -

I am far far FAR from an expert on this, but here is what I did. 

(1) Call /authentication/sessions/login to get a session key: 

(2) Once you get that session key, save it in the Headers for your next request:

Hope that helps!

  • irach15's avatar
    irach15
    Maven
    5 years ago

    CarolineS 

    aha... I see your url is different than provided in all Khoros docs...

    I'll try.

    Can you pz past the Post url here?

    also, what is Authorization in Postman, basic?

    Postman settings will help a lot to 🙂

    thanks.

    • CarolineS's avatar
      CarolineS
      Boss
      5 years ago

      I followed the instructions for Session Key authentication, here: https://developer.khoros.com/khoroscommunitydevdocs/docs/session-key

      Per that documentation, the URL for authentication is: https://[COMMUNITY-DOMAIN]/restapi/vc/authentication/sessions/login (w/ parameters user.login and user.password)

      I didn't change the Postman settings from the default settings at all - I see that the Authorization settings are set to: Type: 0Auth 1.0 and Signature Method: HMAC-SHA1 - again, pretty sure that was just what the defaults were.

      Hope this helps! This is pretty much the extent of my knowledge on this so hopefully someone else will have answers if you have further questions!

      Cheers!