AEWS authorization options via CURL/POSTMAN

Products

• Autosys Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

When AEWS URL is accessed via a browser, it prompts for credentails and once you provide appropriate authorized credentials, the AEWS URL can be used there after.

If the same is being attempted from tools like curl/Postman,  the same credentials might need to be passed as part of a header.  Below document provides couple of samples around the same.

 

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : Workload Automation AE

Resolution

You can use the --user  option  or the  Authorization header which needs base64 encrypted string

 

curl -X GET https://myURL:9443/AEWS/job/test  -k  --user "ejmadmin:ejmadmin"

curl -X GET https://myURL:9443/AEWS/job/test -k  -H "Authorization: Basic ZWptYWRtaW46ZWptYWRtaW4=" -i

#note: The Authorization token above is  ejmadmin:ejmadmin  (which are the default credentials to login to AEWS)

 

The encrypted string can be obtained in a few ways:

1)  echo -n "ejmadmin:ejmadmin" | base64
ZWptYWRtaW46ZWptYWRtaW4=

 

2)

PS C:\Users\Administrator> $auth = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("ejmadmin:ejmadmin")
PS C:\Users\Administrator> [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($auth)
ZWptYWRtaW46ZWptYWRtaW4=

 

3)  Postman itself has the option to encrypt the credentials and create the Authorization header,  you could also try to encrypt/depcrypt using websites https://www.base64decode.org