How to use WEB API ? What authentication changes will be require ?

simples over 7 years ago

Hi All,

#WebAPI

I have created a Web API in 16.2, have selected 'Start Process' as Template, Method is 'POST'.

It is working fine when I am testing that web API but I don't have any idea how I allow third party to access it. I tried to understand things mentioned on forum regarding Authentication but unable to understand.

Also I noticed that we don't receive URL for template 'Start Process', so I have only End Point.

Can someone please guide how we can publish our Web API and allow third party(Outside of Appian) to access it ?

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0 karlg over 7 years ago

If it can help you, made it work perfectly with the following (under powershell), it's exactly as chetany mentionned :

$user = "userLogin"
$pass = "userPassword"
$pair = "${user}:${pass}"

$bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair)
$base64 = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes)

$basicAuthValue = "Basic $base64"

$headers = @{ Authorization = $basicAuthValue }

Invoke-WebRequest -uri "mySuperWebApiURL" -Headers $headers
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0 karlg over 7 years ago

If it can help you, made it work perfectly with the following (under powershell), it's exactly as chetany mentionned :

$user = "userLogin"
$pass = "userPassword"
$pair = "${user}:${pass}"

$bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair)
$base64 = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($bytes)

$basicAuthValue = "Basic $base64"

$headers = @{ Authorization = $basicAuthValue }

Invoke-WebRequest -uri "mySuperWebApiURL" -Headers $headers
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