alm-authenticate

Description

Logs the user on to the ALM server.

URL

/qcbin/authentication-point/alm-authenticate

Remarks

User and password are sent unencrypted in XML format. To encrypt, use HTTPS protocol. The input format is:

	<alm-authentication>
	    <user>username</user>
	    <password>password</password>
	</alm-authentication>

Requests to this resource do not open an ALM application session.

HTTP Methods

GET: N/A

PUT: N/A

DELETE: N/A

POST: Logs on the user.

Media Type
GET
PUT
DELETE
POST
application/xml
-
-
-
check
application/json
-
-
-
-

Returns

One of the HTTP Return Codes.

One of:

HTTP code 201 and sets the LWSSO cookie (LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY).

HTTP code 401 for non-authenticated request. Sends header WWW-Authenticate: ALMAUTH


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