<div dir="ltr">Hi Tom,<div><br></div><div>thanks so much for taking time to answer my question. As far as I understand, you describe the login procedure laid out in <a href="http://doc.arvados.org/api/tokens.html">http://doc.arvados.org/api/tokens.html</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The core of my question actually concerns navigating to <a href="https://your-apiserver-host/login?return_to=https://your-application-host/any/desired/path" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://your-apiserver-host/<wbr>login</a>. Am I right that this <i>requires </i>an actual <i>web browser</i> like Internet Explorer or Chrome? I am calling the API from a C# application without a UI or Web Browser, so ideally I would like to be able to log in without actually displaying a web page in an actual browser once I got the username and password, e.g. on the command line or a simple .net GUI. Do you see a way to do this? </div><div>I saw the suggestion in the documentation to copy-paste the token from the work bench to the command line to define an environment variable, but that does not seem appropriate for our users. Other APIs offer the option to pass <a href="https://your-apiserver-host/login?return_to=https://your-application-host/any/desired/path" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">https://your-apiserver-host/<wbr>login</a>/?username=XXX?password=XXX, but it seems like Arvados purposely does not allow this possibility. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Tom Clegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@curoverse.com" target="_blank">tom@curoverse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Thomas,<br>
<br>
Your application can give the user a link/redirect to a URL like this:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://your-apiserver-host/login?return_to=https://your-application-host/any/desired/path" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://your-apiserver-host/<wbr>login?return_to=https://your-<wbr>application-host/any/desired/<wbr>path</a><br>
<br>
(Of course the "return_to" value should be suitably escaped.)<br>
<br>
After a successful login, the user will be redirected to<br>
<a href="https://your-application-host/any/desired/path?api_token=X" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://your-application-host/<wbr>any/desired/path?api_token=X</a>, where X is<br>
of course the newly issued token, and your application can take it<br>
from there -- typically saving X in a session store and redirecting to<br>
a cleaned URL so the api_token doesn't remain in the browser's<br>
Location bar.<br>
<br>
This is the same procedure Arvados Workbench uses, so it might be<br>
helpful to refer to the Workbench code as examples. Here are some of<br>
the relevant bits.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/curoverse/arvados/blob/master/apps/workbench/app/controllers/application_controller.rb#L511" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/curoverse/<wbr>arvados/blob/master/apps/<wbr>workbench/app/controllers/<wbr>application_controller.rb#L511</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/curoverse/arvados/blob/master/apps/workbench/app/models/arvados_api_client.rb#L232-L244" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/curoverse/<wbr>arvados/blob/master/apps/<wbr>workbench/app/models/arvados_<wbr>api_client.rb#L232-L244</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/curoverse/arvados/blob/master/apps/workbench/app/controllers/application_controller.rb#L586-L597" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/curoverse/<wbr>arvados/blob/master/apps/<wbr>workbench/app/controllers/<wbr>application_controller.rb#<wbr>L586-L597</a><br>
<br>
--<br>
Tom Clegg<br>
Chief Architect<br>
Curoverse<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Albrecht, Tom <<a href="mailto:tom.albrecht@roche.com">tom.albrecht@roche.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I hope you point me in a direction to achieve an elegant authentication for<br>
> my Arvados API application.<br>
><br>
> I am developing a plugin for a third-party software to download data from<br>
> our Arvados server. The software dictates the language and platform: C# /<br>
> .net and Windows. I managed to access the data using .net's<br>
> System.Net.HttpWebRequest class. What remains to be done is implementing an<br>
> elegant authentication.<br>
><br>
> As a workaround, I logged into the Arvados Workbench using my browser and<br>
> copy-pasted the authentication token into my application. This works but is<br>
> not as user-friendly as I would like it to be. So my question is how to<br>
> achieve the authentication more elegantly without a web browser, for<br>
> instance by passing username and password to the API up front or using some<br>
> kind of single sign-on functionality available in .net.<br>
><br>
> Do you have any suggestions?<br>
><br>
> Best regards<br>
><br>
> Thomas<br>
><br>
><br>
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