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Re: Web service HTTP Basic Authentication - where to start from?

You are welcome Maria.

Rpgapi doesn’t interface with any http/https you have already configured on your system right?
Such as configured on Apache or IWS.

I just don’t see the point of coupling webservice programming code with http server config.

From my understanding if you use RPGApi you will be 1) writing response code to pull data to respond to the request 2) at the same time tasked with specifying http parameters to route the response back off the platform.
I think a more organized approach is for http config to be implemented once and provide framework in which your webservice programs function within.

Why not implement a framework that deploys http/https infrastructure once and then allow developers to focus only on writing the backend code to produce the response from the DB for the request?


Jay

On May 4, 2020, at 2:35 AM, Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

@Jay
Thank you for suggesting a new product. I appreciate it and I will take it
into account as I have already seen the introductory video.
Nonetheless, as I have been working with IBM middle systems since 1985 and
I think I know these systems and the whole ecosystem pretty well, for this
specific project and all its constraints, a router as simple as RPGAPI will
do the job.

Il giorno sab 2 mag 2020 alle ore 02:55 Jay Vaughn <
jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

I’m familiar with that RPGapi project. It’s bare bones, no ssl/cert and
does the same thing a free ibm IWS or Apache server does... for free, with
continued support and improvements from IBM... I’d recommend against the
RPGapi...

Jay

On Apr 28, 2020, at 5:08 AM, Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Patrik,

So far, I already have a few REST APIs answering via an IWS web service
and
it works fine, the Vue front-end makes the calls and consumes the
responses.
I need to add a security layer, meaning instead of the front-end directly
making the calls, a server in the middle will receive the front-end
requests and forward them to the web service using an existing IBM i user
profile. I guess, basic authentication is needed for this connection
to successfully happen.

Back to your question: firstly, I think I'll explore how Web Server
Process
itself takes care of this. From the middle server perspective it should
consist in some headers attributes properly set. From the Web Server
process, I don't know where to start from. I am groping in the dark.

Later on, I'll explore the second option you mentioned, which is my case
I
assume will be some IBM i APIs, because I have just found an article (

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/announcing-rpgapi-daniel-long/?trackingId=0Q2XJyfCjDcI7AtXZVbl7w%3D%3D
)
describing how to set up an RPG server listening for REST APIs' requests,
which works without the middle IWS layer (no Java conversion in between).

What do you think about it?



Il giorno mar 28 apr 2020 alle ore 10:17 Patrik Schindler <
poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
ha scritto:

Hello Maria,

Am 28.04.2020 um 07:58 schrieb Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx
:

I know very little about basic authentication: I know REST API must be
called with login information set in the headers, but I can't figure
out
how to configure the web service HTTP instance to accept it and, most
of
all, how these information will be checked against user profile
security
on
IBM i.

Basic-Auth is done by the Web Server Process(es) itself, while some AUTH
in some API is handled by the API. Which of these two do you want to
have?

I would like to know a bit more on the subject before paying for a
course.

Regarding REST and http, there's plenty of information out there in the
network. I'd start with Wikipedia (preferred: English, the
computing-centric articles are often of vrey good quality) and follow
Links
in there to learn more.

:wq! PoC

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