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I'm trying to acquire a valid logon session, but I get "no active session"

alberto_capelli — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 11:54:50 GMT

Beginner here, I'm following API guide to acquire a login session.
I'm testing with curl command like this

curl  https://{server-ip:server-port}/wsg/api/public/v5_1/session -k -X GET

But I get the following error:

{"message":"Current session has timed out.","errorCode":201,"errorType":"No active session"}

Re: I'm trying to acquire a valid logon session, but I get "no active session"

jamie_walmsley — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:00:15 GMT

Hi,

You need to be doing sending a POST rather than a GET and you also need to pass in JSON for the username/pass

data = { "username": username,
"password": password,
"timeZoneUtcOffset": "+00:00"
}

Re: I'm trying to acquire a valid logon session, but I get "no active session"

alberto_capelli — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:12:20 GMT

Hi, I tried like you said, specifying also Content-type it seems to work!

curl  https://{ip:port}/wsg/api/public/v5_1/session -k -X POST --data '{"username":"admin","password":"Mypass.1","timeZoneUtcOffset":"+01:00"}' -H 'Content-type: application/json'

thank you

Re: I'm trying to acquire a valid logon session, but I get "no active session"

jamie_walmsley — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:44:32 GMT

No problems!

Once you logon it'll give you back a session ID which needs to be passed with every API call along with the content type so for example;

{'Content-Type': 'application/json;charset=UTF-8','Cookie': 'JSESSIONID='GDHDHDAAA'}