HP ALM REST API Reference
Sign-in

The sign-in resource requests authorization.

Remarks

Request one of the HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT, or DELETE.

Send the user and password in BASE64 encoding in an Authorization header.

This resource sets the authentication cookies required for future requests:

Hint: A sign-in may fail if there are still valid authentication cookies. The cookies can be reset with a request to Sign-out.

URIs

/qcbin/api/authentication/sign-in

Limitations

Header Parameters

Example

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****  Request ***
GET /qcbin/api/authentication/sign-in HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic 123456789abcdef=
Host: myserver:8081

****  Response ***
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: LWSSO_COOKIE_KEY=0123456789abcdef;Path=/;HTTPOnly
Set-Cookie: QCSession=0123456789abcdef;Path=/;HttpOnly
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Set-Cookie: ALM_USER=0123456789abcdef;Path=/
Set-Cookie: XSRF-TOKEN=0123456789abcdef;Path=/
Content-Length: 0