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We are switching most of our services over to a different authentication API, please see Authentication Service (for selected services)

All services requires the client to include a token, acquired from the authentication service. The token will be valid for a limited period of time, but valid for all requests during that time interval. So this is done in two steps:

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In a simplified way the process can be shown as follows

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Login

To authenticate with resources exposed by the API, it is required to sign in with the login service. This service is called to retrieve a valid TGT token.

URL

https://login.boknett.no/v1/tickets

Method

POST

Request
parameters

username

Required

Username for whom to sign in as.

password

Required

Password for whom to sign in as.

Response
headers

Boknett-TGT

TGT returned from login service

Returns

201

Created

400

Bad Request

405

Method Not Allowed

Sample usage

Remember that curl does not automatically urlencode -d input data, so if you password has any special characters you nede to manually urlencode it first. 

Code Block
languagebash
curl -i -d "username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD" https://login.boknett.no/v1/tickets

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:23:42 GMT
Server: Noelios-Restlet-Engine/1.1..1
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Boknett-TGT: TGT-152-leeshOABMDJE41s55z9WBLq7d7kk2ONUQozYHOF2FimxI5a9D9Z-login.boknett.no
Content-Length: 0
Via: 1.1 login.boknett.no

Logout 

For security reasons it is recommended (although not required) to logout when finished using the TGT. This is not necessary for TGTs that are expired.

URL

https://login.boknett.no/v1/tickets/{TGT}

Method

DELETE

Returns

200

OK

400

Bad Request

405

Method Not Allowed

Sample usage

Code Block
languagebash
curl  -X "DELETE" -i https://login.boknett.no/v1/tickets/TGT-152-leeshOABMDJE41s55z9WBLq7d7kk2ONUQozYHOF2FimxI5a9D9Z-login.boknett.no

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 17:21:12 GMT
Server: Noelios-Restlet-Engine/1.1..1
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 0
Via: 1.1 login.boknett.no

Restrictions 

Restriction

Current value

Maximum age of Authorization token (TGT)

2 hours

Test environment

https://login.boknett.webbe.no/v1/tickets/