On Jun 8, 2015, at 8:25 PM, Alexander Bokovoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 08 Jun 2015, Timothy Worman wrote: >> I have developed a java client that is able to successfully commit >> transactions to FreeIPA using the json/rpc API. If it is useful, I >> could abstract all this and package it up to share. But I am seeing >> some interesting things - some of it may be my lack of experience using >> HttpClient but I wanted to run it by the list to see what should be >> expected. >> >> I have been following Alexander’s guidelines >> (https://vda.li/en/posts/2015/05/28/talking-to-freeipa-api-with-sessions) >> to develop this. >> >> I am able to establish a kerberized connection to >> https://hostname/ipa/session/login_kerberos with the HttpClient, >> Krb5LoginModule, using AuthSchemes.SPNEGO, proper referer header, and >> jaas config. The connection is successful and I am caching the >> ipa-session cookie string for subsequent use (sending a second >> command). I am performing this as a PrivilegedAction. >> >> After successful authentication, I send a second transaction - a >> typical “list users” json formatted command to the server at >> https://hostname/ipa/json. I first attempted this without implementing >> PrivilegedAction since Alexander’s guide indicated I did NOT need to do >> any more authentication once I had a session key. I added a cookie >> header to a plain https transaction with the session cookie. This did >> not work - which surprised me. The app actually prompted me at this >> point for login credentials. Any thoughts here? > You have to use session-enabled end point -- /ipa/session/json, not > normal one. I think my article points out this clearly.
It probably does, and I probably missed it as people sometimes do. ;-) I will run some tests with this. > I decided to create a new PrivilegedAction class to send subsequent >> json transactions to the server. I moved my code for the 2nd connection >> in there. This works. But as a test, I commented out instructions to >> explicitly add the session cookie to the transaction. And it still >> works. I found that I do not explicitly have to add the cookie header. >> I am assuming that HttpClient natively handles cookies without explicit >> interaction. > Yes, HttpClient automatically parses cookies sent in responses and puts > them into a cookie store. Unless you are explicitly managing the cookie > store, the default is to use the same cookie store for all requests sent > associated with the client instance. > >> It does appear that I have a working client in any case. > Great! Yes. In further tests I’ve actually found I do not need the initial connection I spoke of. If I use HttpClient initialized as I described and simply post my json to https://hostname/ipa/json a connection is negotiated and the list users transaction appears to go through normally. Alexander, your write-up was very helpful. Thanks. > -- > / Alexander Bokovoy -- Manage your subscription for the Freeipa-devel mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel Contribute to FreeIPA: http://www.freeipa.org/page/Contribute/Code
