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 Muthukumar Ponniahsamy (Muthu)
ING NV
Lead System Architect
ING NV
NL
Muthu Member since 2013 7 posts
ING NV
Posted: Jul 18, 2016
Last activity: Sep 19, 2016
Posted: 18 Jul 2016 12:34 EDT
Last activity: 19 Sep 2016 10:59 EDT
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BASIC authentication of REST service

Hi All,

 

I am trying to access Pega 7 Process REST API to create a case. I have configured the service package to use authentication with BASIC authentication type.

(Example: username - Muthu password - rules)

 

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Hi All,

 

I am trying to access Pega 7 Process REST API to create a case. I have configured the service package to use authentication with BASIC authentication type.

(Example: username - Muthu password - rules)

 

When i pass the authentication header from my rest client, I get a 401 unauthorized error.

API accessed:http://address:7002/prweb/api/v1/cases

(Authorization: Basic TXV0aHU6cnVsZXM=)

 

On the other hand, if i pass the UserIdentifier and Password as query string parameters, i am able to authenticate myself and execute the API.

API accessed: http://address:7002/prweb/api/v1/cases?UserIdentifier=Muthu&Password=cnVsZXM=

 

Please suggest


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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 27 Jul 2016 8:17 EDT
Muthukumar Ponniahsamy (Muthu)
ING NV
Lead System Architect
ING NV
NL

Thanks to Kevin for pointing me to the below

"for weblogic, there is some specific you have to do, see this link for details: https://docs-previous.pega.com/troubleshooting-weblogic-error-when-http-basic-authentication-enabled-soap-service"

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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 18 Jul 2016 13:55 EDT
Rajeev Ranjan (ranjr)
PEGA
Principal Technical Solutions Engineer
PEG
PL

What I feel, it should propt for username and password. Is your pop up blocked?

Which browser you are using? Could you try with other browser as well?

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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 18 Jul 2016 16:46 EDT
Muthukumar Ponniahsamy (Muthu)
ING NV
Lead System Architect
ING NV
NL
Hi Rajeev, as I am passing authentication header with user credentials, I am not challenged to provide uid and password in pop up. If I do not pass the header, I am prompted with the pop up. On entering the details, the pop is shown again . As if the entered details are incorrect. I have tried this from Firefox n chrome. Both using rest client and pasting the GET URL in address bar. Thanks
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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 19 Jul 2016 3:06 EDT
Veera Gangababu Gollapalli (Gangababu)
PEGA
Principal Technical Solutions Engineer
PEG
IN

Hi,

I tried with http://address:7002/prweb/api/v1/cases

When I paste in firefox browser it prompted me for credentails. When I enter the credentails it worked fine.

Could you please cross verify at your end? I tried in PRPC7.2.

Please specify your PRPC version also.

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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 19 Jul 2016 4:43 EDT
Muthukumar Ponniahsamy (Muthu)
ING NV
Lead System Architect
ING NV
NL

Thanks Ganga, I am using 7.1.9.

When i past the url in the browser(firefox), i get a prompt for the credentials. I provide the same and click on submit. I am re-prompted  to enter the credentials.

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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 20 Jul 2016 1:09 EDT
Praneeth Purighalla (PraneethPurighalla)
PEGA
Principal System Architect
Pegasystems Inc.
CA

Also, have you tried testing this service from Pega API landing page inside Designer Studio? You will find the link under Resources menu item.

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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 24 Jul 2016 7:34 EDT
Kevin Zheng (KevinZheng_GCS)
PEGA
Director, Technical Support
Pegasystems Inc.
US

I have tested both indepedent rest clients (soapui/cocarestclient) with pegaapi, it works for both 7.1.9 and 7.2.1. If you use the suggestion from Paraneeth, when you click 'try it out', you will be presented with browser popup to enter user/password, once you do that, it should be fine, see my screenshot:

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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 24 Jul 2016 18:28 EDT
Vamshi Krishna (Vamshi_Kassety)
Infosys
AU

HI Muthu,

I also faced issue with "401 unauthorized error", while invoking rest services. I resolved it by unchecking "External Authentication" on Operator ID rule. 

 

Vamshi

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Posted: 8 years ago
Posted: 25 Jul 2016 7:12 EDT
Muthukumar Ponniahsamy (Muthu)
ING NV
Lead System Architect
ING NV
NL

Thanks Kevin and Vamshi,

I have tested this in the PVS instance of 7.1.9 that i installed in my laptop. The basic authentication is working without any issue.

Now i left thinking , what in my project environment setup (i.e different from PVS) might cause this issue this issue.

 

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