Authentication

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Before any other call to the server can be made, an authorization token is required.

 

Basic authentication

 

Using basic authentication with user credentials an authorization token can be acquired :

 

To retrieve an authorization token the software house identification and the user credentials have to be posted.

A successful call of the authentication method will return an access token, valid for 10 minutes.

 

 

Using an OAuth token

 

It is also possible to use an OAuth token.

 

 

 

Either of the above mentioned options will result in a token that can be used to:

Get Dossiers to retrieve a list of dossiers you have access to.
Connect Dossier to retrieve a Dossiertoken for the dossier you want to work on.