Quick Start
Use the information in this topic to help you get started with the Oracle WebCenter Portal REST API.
Step 1: Obtain Account Information
From your administrator, obtain the user name and password to enable you to access WebCenter Portal.
Step 2: Install cURL
The examples in this document use the cURL command-line tool to demonstrate how to access the Oracle WebCenter Portal REST API.
To connect securely to the server, you must install a version of cURL that supports SSL and provide an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate file or bundle to authenticate against the Verisign CA certificate. For more information about:
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Using cURL, see Use cURLs.
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Authentication, see Authentication.
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In your browser, navigate to the cURL home page at http://curl.haxx.se and click Download in the left navigation menu.
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On the cURL Releases and Downloads page, locate the SSL-enabled version of the cURL software that corresponds to your operating system, click the link to download the ZIP file, and install the software.
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Navigate to the cURL CA Certs page at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html and download the ca-bundle.crt SSL CA certificate bundle in the folder where you installed cURL.
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Open a command window, navigate to the directory where you installed cURL, and set the cURL environment variable,
CURL_CA_BUNDLE
, to the location of an SSL CA certificate bundle. For example:C:\curl> set CURL_CA_BUNDLE=ca-bundle.crt
You are now ready to send requests to Oracle WebCenter Portal using cURL.
Step 3: Using Oracle WebCenter Portal REST API
Use a cURL command such as the following to invoke Oracle WebCenter Portal API. Change example.com
to the host in your Service URL as described in Send Requests.
curl -u jstein:welcome1
-H "Content-Type:application/json"
-H "Accept:application/json"
-X GET
https://example.com/webcenter/v1/portal/portals/{id}?utoken=sampletoken