LAPI - Log in - Cookie issue - Content Server with Directory Services moduel

Hi all, I have a test java application that uses LAPI to log into Livelink and list the items in the root of enterprise. Before i install directory services module my test application works. As soon as i install the module it stops working. I have noticed the cookie is longer when the module is installed. Has anyone come accross this issue? Server name = OTCS, port = 2099, cookie = [taken from browser at real time to ensure it is valid]. In reality this is retrieved programatically. Specifying these values on the API works before but not after the install of DS. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Ferdinand Prantl

UI cookies may contain additional code, which is checked in the UI request handlers, but not necessarily in the API handlers. OTDS does it. If you want to use the LLCookie for LAPI communication, you'd have to obtain it by GetCookieInfo (LAPI), for example. If you grabbed the cookie from a web page to save the user from entering credentials to a LAPI tool, I don't know how to work around it. Disabling OTDS authentication would do, but you usually install it because you want to use it...

Appu_Nair1

eLink : LAPI - Log in - Cookie issue - Content Server with Directory Services moduelOne option would be and I say this without any testing is to configure another livelink server with no authentication but the livelink login screen In many orgs the admin servers are set to run with livelink auth .I would think in that case lapi would honor the auth cookie returned.

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LAPI - Log in - Cookie issue - Content Server with Directory Services moduel

Posted by ferdipr@opentext.com (Prantl, Ferdinand) On 11-27-2013 14:31

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Nick_Bannister

Thanks for the reply. For Livelink 971 with Livelink Directory Services 3.1.0 and using a none single sign on URL (and an account that han't been used with Active Directory) then i am able to use the LLCookie from the browser to allow our LAPI tool to log in without asking for credentials. I haven't tested this using the SSO URL but sespect this may not work. When i try to do the same with Content Server 2010 the behaviour is different and it doesn't work. Is this correct and something has been fixed to stop something that shouldn't work from working?

Appu_Nair1

eLink : LAPI - Log in - Cookie issue - Content Server with Directory Services moduel 2When writing a lapi app using IWA you do not need a cookie method this should work just like that in Cs10 you may have to adjust for OTDS if that is present

What I do is configure the livelink Webserver/or application so it actually is IWA.If you out a simple ASPX or asp to spit out environment vars you would see your userid in Remote_user variable
Once that works your lapi session is invoked against the Webserver in this case the webgui and the lapi auth routines use the same underlying methods and should work just like the SSO ui.The only thing your java app should be run as a domain user who is known to the Webserver and livelink

In the case of livelink in IIS this is more writing than actual doing once you configure it properly you would be amazed at how easy it is

Is there a reason you have to use the lapi port (2099)? Perhaps faster for you ?

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Posted by nick.bannister@cadcap.co.uk (Bannister, Nick) On 11-28-2013 04:32

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