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?

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?

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;

}

req.PreAuthenticate = true;

req.Proxy.Credentials =

req.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("username@work.com", "password123");