OTDS Authentication Service

antonys@mmm.ca

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to find the proper link to the OTDS Authentication Service.

The example given here: https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/fetch/-15106263/15106294/15106295/16376487/17990637/45500683/otds_C#.html , says the URL will be this: http://localhost:8080/ot-authws/Authentication?wsdl , but I can't find a folder called ot-authws. I have tried launching this url from the server and I am getting 404 errors.

We have OTDS installed, but do we have to install OTDS web services separately?

Thanks,
Sean

Peter_Varga

Hi Sean
The "ot-authws" web service is available from OTDS itself and you do not need to install anything separately. If you are getting 404 from the OTDS server when using the correct URL, then there is a problem with the OTDS installation. There should be an 'ot-authws.xml' file in your /conf/Catalina/localhost folder of the Tomcat used by OTDS.

I would also point out that if you're not tied strictly to SOAP web services, you can use the OTDS REST API to authenticate to obtain a token. You simply have to POST the following JSON to /otdsws/v1/authentication/credentials:
{
"user_name":"otadmin@otds.admin",
"password":"s3cr3t"
}

antonys@mmm.ca

Hi,

We have ot-authws.xml and when I open it, there is only one line code, which goes to \Document Services 10.5.0\otds-fwd. That folder exists on the server, but when I navigate to http://localhost:8080/ot-authws/Authentication?wsdl on the server I still get 404. Any ideas why?

Thanks,
Sean

antonys@mmm.ca

Hi,

We have ot-authws.xml and when I open it, there is only one line code, which goes to \Document Services 10.5.0\otds-fwd. That folder exists on the server, but when I navigate to http://localhost:8080/ot-authws/Authentication?wsdl on the server I still get 404. Any ideas why?

Thanks,
Sean

Pete_Oliver

Hi Sean,

The actual URL you should be using is this:

http://localhost:8080/ot-authws/services/Authentication?wsdl

The /services path component was missing from your URL.

Cheers!
Pete.