http://socket3.leeds.ac.uk:8080/amsetwiki/ Wiki for JISC AMSeT Project en-us JSPWiki 2.8.1 http://socket3.leeds.ac.uk:8080/amsetwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=AuthenticationService&version=-1 clayton created this page on Thu Apr 30 11:45:32 BST 2009:<br /><hr /><br /><p>The purpose of this service is to provide a security ticket that is used as a token for secure access to all the other Alfresco Web services. </p><p>Every Alfresco workflow must start with a call to this service. </p> <p /> <hr /> <p><b>Operations</b> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p><tt><b>startSession</b>(String username, String password)</tt> </p> <p>This takes as input the username and password of an administrator Alfresco account and returns three strings: the username from the input message, a security ticket and the Java session id associated with the security ticket. By default, the ticket is valid for 5 minutes. </p> <p><br /> </p> <p><tt><b>endSession</b>(String ticket)</tt> </p> <p>This operation takes the security ticket string as a parameter and terminates the associated Java session and thus invalidates the ticket. </p> Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:45:32 GMT