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| apmohan |
 Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:17 am Post subject: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urlencod |
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Hello All,
I am using IIB V10.0.0.18 and I want to do call a external rest to fetch a token, when i try to use postman, I am passing the username/password as Key and Value under Body with Content Type as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
How can do the same using IIB ?
I tried below
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SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestLine.Method = 'POST';
Set OutputRoot.HTTPRequestHeader."Content-Type" = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.Parameters.username = 'xx';
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.Parameters.password = 'yy';
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestURL = 'https://URL';
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file:///D:/1.PBB_SBSA/1.My_Work/3.ESRI_API_WMB/POSTMAN.jpg |
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| apmohan |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:29 am Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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| apmohan wrote: |
Hello All,
I am using IIB V10.0.0.18 and I want to do call a external rest to fetch a token, when i try to use postman, I am passing the username/password as Key and Value under Body with Content Type as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
How can do the same using IIB ?
I tried below
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SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestLine.Method = 'POST';
Set OutputRoot.HTTPRequestHeader."Content-Type" = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.Parameters.username = 'xx';
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.Parameters.password = 'yy';
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestURL = 'https://URL';
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file:///D:/1.PBB_SBSA/1.My_Work/3.ESRI_API_WMB/POSTMAN.jpg |
When I pass the username/password as HTTP Parameters
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Set OutputRoot.HTTPRequestHeader.HTTP.QueryString.username = 'XX';
Set OutputRoot.HTTPRequestHeader.HTTP.QueryString.password = 'YY'; |
I am getting an error
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<data contentType="text/plain;charset=utf-8" contentLength="155"><![CDATA[{"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "Unable to generate token.",
"details": [
"'username' must be specified.",
"'password' must be specified."
]
}}]]></data> |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:45 am Post subject: |
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Location: Texas, USA
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Neither of those methods add anything to the body of the call.
Your first example adds them to the parameters passed in the HTTP header, the second adds them as query items to the end of the URL.
If you want them in the body of the query, add them as you would anything else in the message tree.
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| apmohan |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Vitor wrote: |
Neither of those methods add anything to the body of the call.
Your first example adds them to the parameters passed in the HTTP header, the second adds them as query items to the end of the URL.
If you want them in the body of the query, add them as you would anything else in the message tree. |
Thanks Vitor for the reply, can you please let me know how I can add them as body of the query?
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| abhi_thri |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:18 am Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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Posts: 516
Location: UK
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| apmohan wrote: |
when i try to use postman, I am passing the username/password as Key and Value under Body with Content Type as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
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hi...to add to Vitor's comment, look at the successful postman request structure and try creating the same in IIB, i.e if username/password is created in the request body and not as headers/query params the same need to be done in IIB as well. Can you post the full postman request from the http logs, anonymise the credentials first |
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| apmohan |
| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2021 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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| abhi_thri wrote: |
| apmohan wrote: |
when i try to use postman, I am passing the username/password as Key and Value under Body with Content Type as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
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hi...to add to Vitor's comment, look at the successful postman request structure and try creating the same in IIB, i.e if username/password is created in the request body and not as headers/query params the same need to be done in IIB as well. Can you post the full postman request from the http logs, anonymise the credentials first |
Thanks abhi_thri for the reply, here is the postman console logs:
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Request Headers
User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.26.8
Accept: */*
Postman-Token: e07cd6b0-c290-459e-9557-814b01fa9e7b
Host: xxx.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 53
Cookie: __cfduid=de8392f08c7a07ee482c8b7b5eb6529391612532279
Request Body
username: "XX"
password: "YY" |
Here if you see the Request Body just shows username and password, so I am not sure whether this is a JSON format or someother ?
Regarding your reply
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| try creating the same in IIB, i.e if username/password is created in the request body and not as headers/query params the same need to be done in IIB as well |
I am struggling to create as body, I am need some on this to how create it ? |
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| abhi_thri |
| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 12:24 am Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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| apmohan wrote: |
Here if you see the Request Body just shows username and password, so I am not sure whether this is a JSON format or someother ? |
Don't you think the best way is to query with the service provider or check their specs to see what message format they expects for the token request?
Looking at the request which worked it looks like a normal tag delimited format, i.e data lines have two fields separated by ':' and the lines themselves got <newline> as delimiter. Without bothering to create a message model for it you could easily put the whole data string (user/password ones) to the OutputRoot.BLOB.BLOB and see what happens
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username: "XX"
password: "YY" |
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| apmohan |
| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 5:03 am Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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Joined: 28 Dec 2012
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| abhi_thri wrote: |
| apmohan wrote: |
Here if you see the Request Body just shows username and password, so I am not sure whether this is a JSON format or someother ? |
Don't you think the best way is to query with the service provider or check their specs to see what message format they expects for the token request?
Looking at the request which worked it looks like a normal tag delimited format, i.e data lines have two fields separated by ':' and the lines themselves got <newline> as delimiter. Without bothering to create a message model for it you could easily put the whole data string (user/password ones) to the OutputRoot.BLOB.BLOB and see what happens
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username: "XX"
password: "YY" |
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Thanks Again for reverting back..
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| OutputRoot.BLOB.BLOB and see what happens |
I tried this but it fails and not going through.
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| Don't you think the best way is to query with the service provider or check their specs to see what message format they expects for the token request? |
Also I asked the vendor but they aren't sure of it  |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 5:41 am Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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Grand High Poobah
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Location: Texas, USA
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| apmohan wrote: |
| Also I asked the vendor but they aren't sure of it |
Well that's weird but not as unusual as it should be.
But in your first post you said:
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| I am passing the username/password as Key and Value under Body |
So you know the format you need because you created it in Postman. The console log you posted simply proves that Postman understood what you meant and made the call with the details. Create the same body in IIB and it too will make the correct call.
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| apmohan |
| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2021 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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| Vitor wrote: |
| apmohan wrote: |
| Also I asked the vendor but they aren't sure of it |
Well that's weird but not as unusual as it should be.
But in your first post you said:
| apmohan wrote: |
| I am passing the username/password as Key and Value under Body |
So you know the format you need because you created it in Postman. The console log you posted simply proves that Postman understood what you meant and made the call with the details. Create the same body in IIB and it too will make the correct call. |
Thanks Vitor for the update, as advised I passed everything as Blob which resolved the issue 
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SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestLine.Method = 'POST';
DECLARE payload CHARACTER;
SET payload = 'username=xx&password=yy&ip=&client=referer&referer=sit.com&expiration=60&f=pjson';
SET OutputRoot.BLOB.BLOB = CAST(payload AS BLOB CCSID 1208 ENCODING 815);
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestURL = 'Site.com'; |
Thanks to all  |
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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| apmohan wrote: |
Thanks Vitor for the update, as advised I passed everything as Blob which resolved the issue
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SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestLine.Method = 'POST';
DECLARE payload CHARACTER;
SET payload = 'username=xx&password=yy&ip=&client=referer&referer=sit.com&expiration=60&f=pjson';
SET OutputRoot.BLOB.BLOB = CAST(payload AS BLOB CCSID 1208 ENCODING 815);
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestURL = 'Site.com'; |
Thanks to all |
Is this a https session? Otherwise the credentials will be flowing over the network as visible plain text.
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| apmohan |
| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2021 9:37 pm Post subject: Re: Passing Username/Password as application/x-www-form-urle |
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| gbaddeley wrote: |
| apmohan wrote: |
Thanks Vitor for the update, as advised I passed everything as Blob which resolved the issue
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SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestLine.Method = 'POST';
DECLARE payload CHARACTER;
SET payload = 'username=xx&password=yy&ip=&client=referer&referer=sit.com&expiration=60&f=pjson';
SET OutputRoot.BLOB.BLOB = CAST(payload AS BLOB CCSID 1208 ENCODING 815);
SET OutputLocalEnvironment.Destination.HTTP.RequestURL = 'Site.com'; |
Thanks to all |
Is this a https session? Otherwise the credentials will be flowing over the network as visible plain text. |
Yeah it is a https session only. |
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