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In addition to HTTP Basic authentication, Content Gateway allows for the use of an optional token-based authentication in addition to HTTP Basic authentication. Token-based authentication works by performing a one-time HTTP Basic authentication request within the Management API or to a special URI path in the Storage API in order to receive a token. This token is used on subsequent requests as proof of the user's credentials.
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Application developers may prefer to make use of the Management API in order to create tenant tokens for storage domains belonging to a tenant. Storage domain tokens are created with the special URI defined by the tokenPath IDSYS attribute.
The following is an example excerpt from a root IDSYS configuration file defining the token settings. Both the cookieName and tokenPath parameters must be defined in order to enable token-based authentication.
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