rest api login not working

[bbaley]

Hi all,

When making a login request via REST I am getting back a 200 OK response like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:50:11 GMT Content-Length: 0 P3P: CP="ALL" Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 </pre>

but - without a session id...
Oddly - if I am ALREADY logged into jasperserver, it DOES return a session ID like so;

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:47:21 GMT Content-Length: 0 P3P: CP="ALL" Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=4278973A7101ECC11A9504EF2107BF4E; Path=/jasperserver Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

Which appears to be giving my my current session Id, ok great, but the login is NOT working ?Doesn't make any darn sense...

Here is the code I am using (as well as testing the POST using RestClient tool):

function fRESTLogin() {    uri_address = "http://{server-address}:8080/jasperserver/rest/login";    var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();    xmlhttp.open("POST",uri_address,true);    xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");    xmlhttp.send("j_username=jasperadmin&j_password=jasperadmin");}[/code]

Can anyone see what I am doing wrong or incorrectly ?

I couldn't see in the API documentation where I am missing anything in my request....

Of course, I am not using jasperadmin/jasperadmin normally - but have tried it in testing this as shown here 

We are running JasperReports Server CE 4.7 on Tomcat 6

[bbaley]

When the above fRestLogin() executes, I get a Dialog like so;

Authentication required

A Username and password are being requested by

The Site Says: "Protected Area"

 

Username

Password

 

Upon closing the dialog the browser message is;

HTTP Status 401 - Full authentication is required to access this resource

 

This almost seems to be indicating that permissions to the actual REST API are what it's asking for credentials to ?

(since I am making a POST request with the login credentials)

 

Does this sound reasonable or likely ?

[julien.moutel]

Hello,

I know it's an old post but did you find a solution ?

I have a similar issue.

Thank you