Example of Accessing the API with cURL

The following example shows how to logs user in and returns a session cookie by submitting a POST request on the REST resource using cURL. If the request requires a timestamp, use the timestamp from the response of the /login API. For more information about cURL, see Use cURL.

curl -X POST \
    -c cookies.txt \
    -d@request.json \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" https://$IPADDR/restapi/login

The following shows an example of the contents of the request.json file sent as the request body.

{ "login":
  { 
    "username":"talariuser",
    "password":"<talari password>"
  }
}

Example of the Response Headers

The following shows an example of the response headers.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 15:49:00 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.6 () OpenSSL/1.0.2k-fips mod_fcgid/2.3.9 PHP/5.4.40
Set-Cookie: CGISESSID=97c835c039b1d1e3eecd223b097ee04d80ce60aadda1abc70d858a1eb7ba2cc2; path=/; secure
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/json; charset=ISO-8859-1

Example of the Response Body

The following example shows the contents of the response body in JSON format.

{
  "status": "success",
  "user_level": 1,
  "user_level_str": "admin",
  "message": "Login Success - Created session for user talariuser - level: 1",
  "timestamp": "MTYwNzUyODk0MQ=="
}