srp default basic authentication service

BarryStevens

How do you retrieve the username that was used to login via the srp authentication service, at any point during your api executions.

BarryStevens

I thought about it and, correct me if I am wrong.
I think a header is returned either automatically or tell the web developer to do it, that contains the authorization string (in base64 ?) when any api is called.

BarryStevens

Prying eyes.

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I see this service GetAuthenticatedAccountID in HTTP_Authentication_Services ssp , is that a service that we are able to use or is just a function only applicable to the working of the service.

DonBakke

You are correct on both accounts. The Authorization header contains the (typically encoded and/or encrypted) credentials. You could get this using HTTP_Services('GetRequestHeaderField', 'Authorization'), but then you would have to decode it yourself. So, the GetAuthenticatedAccountID is the better service to use.

BarryStevens

Great, that was a confidence boost. It is all coming back to me now (well sort of) - terminology still gets me). How vastly different from the version 1 days :)

DonBakke

How vastly different from the version 1 days :)

That's an understatement.