AuthenticateUser

    Used to retrieve a User Object using an encryptedToken, username, encrypted password, and a salt.

    URI GET rest/v1/authenticateuser/{userName}/{salt}

    Returns – A UserResponse containing a User Object in the User Array property. (See UserResponse in Appendix B)

    Parameters

    Name Type Description
    encryptedToken string Required. EncryptedToken retrieved through previous
    calls.
    username string Required. User’s email address.
    encryptedPassword string Required. The encrypted password for the user.
    salt string Required. Any combination of text and numbers
    that was used to encrypt the plain text password
    into encryptedPassword.

     

    Example – C#

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    string uri = “rest/v1/authenticateuser/{0}/{1}”;
    string salt = “Z1s6aXNQpjQ75wRX1ulI551sR1uHyg3YsOcPLeL9TaM”;
    string responseString = string.Empty;
    JavaScriptSerializer jss = new JavaScriptSerializer();
    UserResponse userResponse;

    uri = string.Format(uri, userName, salt);
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(host + uri);
    request.Headers.Add(“Authorization” , encryptedToken + “:” + encryptedPassword);
    request.Method = “GET”;
    request.ContentType = “application/json”;

    HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
    responseString = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
    userResponse = jss.Deserialize<RequestResponse>(responseString);
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