Generate Token

URL:
https://<admin-root>/generateToken
Methods:
GET
Required Capability:
Administrator
Version Introduced:
10.8

Description

Generates a token. The generated security token can be used by clients when working with the Administrator API.

Request Parameters

ParameterDescription

username

The name of an administrative account for the site.

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username=user1

password

The credentials of the administrative account.

Example

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password=testpassword

client

The client IP or HTTPS Referer to which the generated token will be bound.

Values: referer | ip | requestip

referer

The base URL of the web application that will invoke the Administrator API. This parameter must be specified if the value of client parameter is referer.

Example

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referer=https://myserver/mywebapp

ip

(Optional, required if client is set to ip ).

The IP address of the machine that will invoke the Administrator API.

Example

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##.##.###.###

expiration

The time in minutes for which the token must be valid.

Example

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expiration=90

f

The response format. The default response format is html .

Values: html | json

Example usage

Below is a sample POST request for generateToken :

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POST /webadaptor/admin/generateToken HTTP/1.1
Host: machine.domain.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

username=user1&password=testpassword&client=referer&referer=https://machine.domain.com&expiration=90&f=json

JSON Response syntax

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{
  "token":"<token>",
  "expires": "<date>"
}

JSON Response example

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{
  "token": "sakjfh97325437hskfsdfd_sdkjfsjf1283763339564921734sdfbdsj",
  "expires": "13472658353687"
}

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