Pass the session ID in an API call

Hi Harsha,
What's your use case?

Hi Rob,

My use case is,
1.User will try to login via SSO using SAML
2.where he should be having the session token in browser cookies,
3.I need to integrate the external systems usiung integration layer.
4.For authentication we are planning to send the same token to integration layer
5. We are doing an API call from Appian.

Now My questions are

1. How can I get the token stored in Appian before hitting the API
2. Where and how will I pass this Token in the API call.

Please suggest.

Hi Rob,

My use case is,
1.User will try to login via SSO using SAML
2.where he should be having the session token in browser cookies,
3.I need to integrate the external systems usiung integration layer.
4.For authentication we are planning to send the same token to integration layer
5. We are doing an API call from Appian.

Now My questions are

1. How can I get the token stored in Appian before hitting the API
2. Where and how will I pass this Token in the API call.

Please suggest.

Hi Rob,

Any thoughts on this ?

Harsha -

I think I follow your use case.
However, I'm not sure why the user needs to access a web API from inside their browser if they're already logged in to Appian.
Is there some reason why the application cannot be designed to provide the logged in Appian user with the necessary resources?

If you want to access an Appian web API from a browser, the documentation advises use of an embedded interface.
If these docs don't contain all the information you're looking for, consider providing feedback using the feedback form on that page.

Hi Rob,

I actually didn't understand what is the comment specified, I was not looking about the webAPI part I am looking to consume an API from the external system via integration Layer,

So My main intention is,

Instead of me passing the Basic credentials or the secret Key in the parameters , I want to pass the session token so checking on that,
Could you please suggest me on this.