auth/plain

The following methods are supported on this resource:

• update

Mount Points

The following URLs are examples of where this resource is mounted :

update

Authenticate a user by their email address/password.

This is the simplest way to obtain an authentication token. For full functionality you will probably want to use a more secure method of authentication in the future.

This method will return an authentication token when given valid credentials.

The Hi5AuthToken allows for access to authenticated API calls. You can supply this token by adding it to the query string as the Hi5AuthToken parameter or by setting a cookie named Hi5AuthToken.

The response to this method will also return a Set-Cookie header with a correctly configured Hi5AuthToken cookie.

The following form will allow you to set the authentication cookie:

Possible HTTP Parameters

Output Payload

The authentication token.

Errors