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mak11-Visitor
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March 10, 2016
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REST call: how to use x-www-form-urlencoded authentication

  • March 10, 2016
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The following command is working:

curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --header 'Accept: text/plain' -d 'apiKey=1234' 'https://www.telemetry.com/webservice/token'

But the following code returns empty string.

var request = "https://www.telemetry.com/webservice/token";

var content = new Object();

content.apiKey = '1234';

var headers = new Object();

headers.Accept = "text/plain";

var params = {

headers: headers /* JSON */,

ignoreSSLErrors: true /* BOOLEAN */,

url: request /* STRING */,

content: content /* JSON */,

timeout: 60 /* NUMBER */

};

// result: JSON

var result = Resources["ContentLoaderFunctions"].PostJSON(params);

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How to handle the REST call? how to use x-www-form-urlencoded authentication? How to pass the apiKey?

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jamesm15-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
April 12, 2016

Hey Mahboob,

You can post a x-www-form-urlencoded request using the PostText service on the ContentLoaderFunction resource. Here is an example:

var params = {

        headers: {

            "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"      

         },

        url: "" /* Your auth url*/,

    content: "" /* Your auth content. This is usually a param list like param1=one&param2=two. I usually use Postman to create and test the request, then use it to generate a code snippet for http and this will be the last line. */

};

var result = Resources["ContentLoaderFunctions"].PostText(params);

If you're expecting JSON as a result, you can parse it normally using something like:

result = JSON.parse(result);

Hope this helps!

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