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Example of Authenticating a User

This example shows you how to use the authenticate Web service to authenticate and return a valid token for a particular user. The token in the XML response must be passed as a parameter in subsequent REST services requests.

Operation

Use the following operation to authenticate a user:

POST /authentication

Sample URL

The following is a sample URL for this Web service example:

http://myhost.example.com:7017/ebillingrs/rs/authentication

Roles

The following roles are valid for this Web service example:

• CSR Admin
• CSR
• B2B Admin
• B2B Manager
• B2B Subscriber
• B2C User

Sample XML Input

The following is an example of XML input:

<credential>

<username>ftown</username>

<password>example</password>

</credential>

XML Response

The following is an example of the XML response:

<token> gI59AFXTa0p6XFgvMzPNOGMMNhYOhKKbcjGN0K8es6fYM5Po</token>