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derek cheng (46●1●2●1) | asked Mar 18 '09, 1:32 p.m.
I'm having trouble using the REST web service because I don't know how to get programmatic authentication working.

Right now, I'm trying to post data to the authentication service but I'm doing something wrong.

String.Format("https://jazzserver:9443/jazz/secure/web/console/j_security_check?j_username={0}&j_password={1}", username, password);

That's what I've been trying, but the response is always an authentication failed error.

How do you authenticate against Jazz?

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Feng Liu (51●1●12●5) | answered Apr 28 '09, 11:55 p.m.
Hi Derek,

Can you enable the REST authenticating by programmatic way now? I'm also having this problem in my project...

I read your sample code and seems you connect to the jazz server firstly for getting the cookie value, and then store this cookie value for the following HTTP request. Can we pass the REST authenticating just following this way? I tried to follow this way and implement using Java code but it doesn't work for me...

I use Tomcat as the app container. It can be passed in the Embedded Jetty but can not work in Tomcat.

Any responses or help would be very appreciated.
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Patrick Streule (4.9k●2●1) | answered Mar 25 '09, 3:10 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
This is working C# code to get a workitem from the rest service as a
string. It's ugly, but if anyone else wants to do the same thing
it'll get you started.
const string SERVICE_BASE =
"https://jazzhost:9443/jazz/service/com.ibm.team.workitem.service.internal.roa.IRestService/workitems/{0}";
const string JAZZ_BASE =
"https://jazzhost:9443/jazz/";
const string JAZZ_AUTH =
"https://jazzhost:9443/jazz/j_security_check?j_username={0}&j_password={1}";
const string JAZZ_HOST = "jazzhost";

Please keep in mind that (as
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ResourceOrientedWorkItems states) this
API is temporary and will change considerably for the 2.0 release.

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Regards,
Patrick
Jazz Work Item Team
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derek cheng (46●1●2●1) | answered Mar 25 '09, 12:33 p.m.
I'm having trouble using the REST web service because I don't know how
to get programmatic authentication working.

Right now, I'm trying to post data to the authentication service but
I'm doing something wrong.

String.Format("https://jazzserver:9443/jazz/secure/web/console/j_security_check?j_username={0}&j_password={1}",
username, password);

That's what I've been trying, but the response is always an
authentication failed error.

How do you authenticate against Jazz?

POSTing j_username and j_password directly to /j_security_check works on
Jetty, but not on e.g. Tomcat. Tomcat doesn't allow "drive-by" logins and
redirects you to a login page along with a temporary session ID cookie.
This cookie needs to be included in the POST to /j_security_check if I
remember correctly.

--
Regards,
Patrick
Jazz Work Item Team


Thanks Patrick.

We're actually using Websphere 6.1 on Windows x64 with the latest fixpacks. We're trying to do this through automation (it's going to be part of our custom test management solution) from VB6.

Can you give me an example post with the ADMIN account?

This is working C# code to get a workitem from the rest service as a string. It's ugly, but if anyone else wants to do the same thing it'll get you started. 
const string SERVICE_BASE = "https://jazzhost:9443/jazz/service/com.ibm.team.workitem.service.internal.roa.IRestService/workitems/{0}";

const string JAZZ_BASE = "https://jazzhost:9443/jazz/";

const string JAZZ_AUTH = "https://jazzhost:9443/jazz/j_security_check?j_username={0}&j_password={1}";

const string JAZZ_HOST = "jazzhost";



private static string GetWorkItem(string username, string password, int workitem_id)

{

	HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(new Uri(JAZZ_BASE)) as HttpWebRequest;

	HttpWebResponse intialResponse = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;



	CookieContainer container = new CookieContainer();



	foreach (string cookietext in intialResponse.Headers["Set-Cookie"].Split(';'))

	{

		string trimmedCookie = cookietext.Trim();

		if (trimmedCookie.StartsWith("Path"))

			continue;

		Cookie c = new Cookie(trimmedCookie.Split('=')[0], trimmedCookie.Split('=')[1]);

		c.Domain = JAZZ_HOST;

		container.Add(c);

	}



	request = WebRequest.Create(new Uri(String.Format(JAZZ_AUTH, username, password))) as HttpWebRequest;

	request.Method = "POST";

	request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

	request.Referer = JAZZ_BASE;

 

	request.CookieContainer = container;



	HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

  

	response.Close();



	request = WebRequest.Create(new Uri(String.Format(SERVICE_BASE, workitem_id))) as HttpWebRequest;



	request.Referer = response.ResponseUri.ToString();



	request.CookieContainer = container;



	response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;



	StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

	string response_content = reader.ReadToEnd();

	reader.Close();

	response.Close();



	return response_content;

}
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derek cheng (46●1●2●1) | answered Mar 24 '09, 4:51 p.m.
I'm having trouble using the REST web service because I don't know how
to get programmatic authentication working.

Right now, I'm trying to post data to the authentication service but
I'm doing something wrong.

String.Format("https://jazzserver:9443/jazz/secure/web/console/j_security_check?j_username={0}&j_password={1}",
username, password);

That's what I've been trying, but the response is always an
authentication failed error.

How do you authenticate against Jazz?

POSTing j_username and j_password directly to /j_security_check works on
Jetty, but not on e.g. Tomcat. Tomcat doesn't allow "drive-by" logins and
redirects you to a login page along with a temporary session ID cookie.
This cookie needs to be included in the POST to /j_security_check if I
remember correctly.

--
Regards,
Patrick
Jazz Work Item Team


Thanks Patrick.

We're actually using Websphere 6.1 on Windows x64 with the latest fixpacks. We're trying to do this through automation (it's going to be part of our custom test management solution) from VB6.

Can you give me an example post with the ADMIN account?
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Patrick Streule (4.9k●2●1) | answered Mar 24 '09, 2:54 p.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
I'm having trouble using the REST web service because I don't know how
to get programmatic authentication working.

Right now, I'm trying to post data to the authentication service but
I'm doing something wrong.

String.Format("https://jazzserver:9443/jazz/secure/web/console/j_security_check?j_username={0}&j_password={1}",
username, password);

That's what I've been trying, but the response is always an
authentication failed error.

How do you authenticate against Jazz?

POSTing j_username and j_password directly to /j_security_check works on
Jetty, but not on e.g. Tomcat. Tomcat doesn't allow "drive-by" logins and
redirects you to a login page along with a temporary session ID cookie.
This cookie needs to be included in the POST to /j_security_check if I
remember correctly.

--
Regards,
Patrick
Jazz Work Item Team

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