Generate Token—ArcGIS REST APIs

Description

The generateToken operation generates an access token in exchange for user credentials that can be used by clients to access secured ArcGIS Server services. You must make this request over HTTPS and use POST. User credentials must be passed in the body of the POST request. Note that certain credentials, such as the username, are case sensitive. This operation is supported if Server Info resource includes tokenServicesUrl.

Note:

If your organization uses applications that rely on acquiring a token through an HTTP GET request, see Enable token acquisition through an HTTP GET request.

The access token represents the authenticated user for a certain amount of time to all other API functionality. When using the API, you must protect the token against malicious use just as you would the original credentials, and you must be prepared to renew the token. Expired tokens will be rejected by the server.

Request parameters


Parameter	Details
username	The case-sensitive username of the user who wants to get a token. Example `username=testAdmin89`
password	The password of the user who wants to get a token. Example `password=test1234`
client	The client identification type for which the token is to be generated. Users can specify whether the token will be generated for a client application's base URL, a user-specified IP address, or the IP address that is making the request. Values: referer \| ip \| requestip
referer	The base URL of the web app that will invoke the request to access a secured resource. This parameter must be specified if the value of the client parameter is referer. Example `referer=https://myserver/mywebapp`
ip	The IP address of the machine that will invoke the request to access a secured resource. This parameter must be specified if the value of the client parameter is ip. Example `ip=###.###.###.###`
expiration	The token expiration time in minutes. The default is 60 minutes (one hour). The maximum value of the expiration time is controlled by the server. Requests for tokens larger than this time will return a token for the maximum allowed expiration time. Applications are responsible for renewing expired tokens; expired tokens will be rejected by the server on subsequent requests that use the token. Example `expiration=60`
f	The response format. The default response format is html. Values: html \| json \| pjson

Response properties


Property	Details
token	The generated token.
expires	The expiration time of the token in milliseconds since January 1, 1970.

Example usage

The following is a sample POST request for the generateToken operation:

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

username=testUser&password=test1234&client=referer&referer=https://myserver.domain.com/mywebapp&expiration=60&f=json

JSON Response syntax

{
  "token": "<token generated>",
  "expires": <date shown in EPOCH time>
}

JSON Response example

{
  "token": "E60M4Gsc-h4Q8plqQ26PgOmVUKIwR6kOAHiAFl7cGzI.",
  "expires": 1345142184717
}

ArcGIS REST APIs