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Stealth
Stealth

Reputation: 1559

Worklight 6: Authenticating using Adapter against a webservice

I have an authentication webservice sitting at http://example.com:9080/auth/login that accepts a POST request with www-url-form-encoded encoding and responds back in JSON format.

I am currently going through the Adapter-based Authentication tutorial. Inside the body of submitAuthentication(username, password) in SingleStepAuthAdapter-impl.js, I have the following:

function submitAuthentication(username,password):
     var input = {
         method: "post",
         path: '/auth/login',
         returnedContentType: 'json',
         body: {
            content: JSON.stringify({"username":username, "password":password}),
            contentType: "application/x-www-url-formencoded;charset=utf-8"
         }
var returnData = WL.Server.invokeHttp(input)

The problem I am having is that the server (locally hosted websphere) is not receiving my username and password. Am I missing something here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 357

Answers (1)

Joshua Alger
Joshua Alger

Reputation: 2132

You could add a header to the request with basic authentication credentials such as:

var input = {
        method: "post"
        returnedContentType: 'application/json',
        path: path,
        headers: {
                'Authorization': 'Basic '+ base64_encode(username+':'+password),

You could also make the request and then store a secure cookie and attach it as a header on future requests following this post:

Attaching cookie to WorkLight Adapter response header

Upvotes: 2

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