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cjdinger
Leader
10 years ago

Using ActiveCast from external site: requires anonymous API Read access?

Hi,   I'm experimenting with using ActiveCast content from our support site (not Lithium hosted).  I find that the content renders only if I grant "Make REST API calls with read access" in the Defa...
  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    10 years ago

    cjdinger - Yes, you'd need to enable this. Here are the TKB's confirming this.

     

    TKB1

    TKB2

     

    I hope this helps.

cjdinger's avatar
cjdinger
Leader
10 years ago
Varun, thanks for this confirmation.

It would be nice if we had a way in JavaScript to authenticate as a sort of "API user" instead of having it open to all callers with read access. I guess with it set so that any Guest can call these APIs, we'll have to watch the metrics for potential spikes in use.

Chris