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Revision as of 15:09, 29 April 2014
Also visit stoney core: Authentication Resource Mapping (REST - LDAP).
Auth action
To give a client the possibility of verifying username and password, a pseudo-ressource is provided, the only method implemented is the GET.
Auth retrieval (GET)
Auth retrieval (GET) example
To verify the authentication the clients sends a HTTP GET
request on the auth's resource URI https://api.example.com/v1/auth
.
The service responds with a HTTP status code:
- 200 (OK) on success
- 401 (Unauthorized) on authentication failure
- 429 (Too Many Requests)
The service must never return 403
or similar to avoid attacks which try to figure out which users exist and which do not.
Request:
GET /v1/auth/ HTTP 1.1 HOST: api.example.com AUTHORIZATION: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
Accept: application/json
Answer:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
{ "id": 4000123, "user": "user@example.com", "roles": [ "Virtualization Admin", "Backup User"], "location": "https://api.example.com/v1/people/4000123" }