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Web: Authentication not implemented

Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400 3/13/2016	Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400 Not sure if this is by design. When calling /CastleOS/service2/web/AuthenticateUser_PlainText from a web server like PHP, I get an error about calling this endpoint incorrectly. When calling from the browser, using the example jQuery file the response is empty. Then, when calling other endpoints, like GetAllScenes, the call works, even though my authentication doesn't have a token, just a username
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Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390 3/13/2016	Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390 Hmm, you're right, it definitely wasn't doing that earlier. I must've changed something inadvertently, let me look into it...
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Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390 3/13/2016	Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390 Correct me if I'm wrong, but you're getting "An authorization attempt provided improperly formatted credentials. Please try again." logged to the error log, but the data is still returned, and it shows "parsererror", correct?
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Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400 3/13/2016	Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400 I haven't checked the error log. Let's try another call. I have my PHP class able to turn off and on scenes and groups now. But not using any authentication. So, calling a group power odds that error you mentioned to errors.xml. And returns "1" to the caller via HTTP (not JSON, just the string 1)
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Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390 3/13/2016	Chris Cicchitelli Administrator Posts: 3390 I changed the error that's thrown when credentials fail, which apparently had the side effect of not blocking the request from going through. Hence why the credentials are bypassed. Regarding the JSON, if you call it from jQuery or other frameworks, it abstracts it from you like I mentioned. Load it int he browser directly (click this link): http://localhost/CastleOS/service/web/GetAllGroups/ And you get this: [{"key":"Default","value":"0"},{"key":"Ecobee Devices","value":"12"},{"key":"Hue Devices","value":"5"},{"key":"Living Room","value":"11"},{"key":"Living Room Chandelier","value":"8"},{"key":"Master Bedroom","value":"10"},{"key":"Nest Devices","value":"2"},{"key":"Office","value":"9"},{"key":"Sonos Devices","value":"1"},{"key":"Test 4","value":"7"},{"key":"Test Group 2","value":"6"},{"key":"WeMo Devices","value":"3"},{"key":"Z-Wave Devices","value":"4"}]
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Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400 3/13/2016	Phil Hawthorne Posts: 400 Ha yes, VERY familiar with JSON My only problem now is that any call I make to AuthenticateUser_PlainText either results in an error, or empty response.
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