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anthony
Helper
12 years ago

Need the secret to the REST API login method using username/password.

Tried both GET and POST, set "Make REST API calls with read access" to 'grant' for the user, tried with both an Admin user and a basic user...   I can execute API calls in a browser after I log in,...
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anthony
Helper
12 years ago
Bah. Typo in my post. Sorry about that - I'm actually using user. not username. Too many years of typing username/password :/

One thing I haven't tried is also passing the authentication method. I'll see if i can find the values for that in the javadocs and give that a whirl.

I'll update my post above as well to fix that.
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anthony
Helper
12 years ago
Never did figure this out, so moved on to a manual solution since we didn't have that many posts. I just grabbed the messages manually, saved the xml and then did all my programmatic work on the local files.

I'm sure there's a magical configuration setting somewhere, or maybe something with SSO, but it was more efficient for me to spend the time pulling the messages than beat my head against the authentication wall.