Password authentication

Sometimes if your platform does not support HTTP Basic authentication, you can pass the user's e-mail and password as log in credentials to authenticate your program.

If you registered through Sign in with Google, make sure to register a Ragic password before proceeding with this tutorial.

Please only use this when you can not authenticate with HTTP Basic Authentication.

You send a request for a session id with a valid e-mail and password. You can issue a HTTP request using the -d argument containing the id and password. The -c parameter will store sessionId in the cookie jar file specified:

curl --get -d "u=jeff@ragic.com" \
 --data-urlencode "p=123456" \
 -d "login_type=sessionId" \
-d api \
 -c cookie.txt \
 -k \
 https://www.ragic.com/AUTH

If authentication failed, server will return -1. If authenticated, you will receive a session id in the response like this:

2z5u940y2tnkes4zm49t2d4

If you would like to retrieve detailed info on the log in user, you can also provide an additional json=1 parameter so that Ragic will return a json object containing the details of the user.

curl --get -d "u=jeff@ragic.com" \
 --data-urlencode "p=123456" \
 -d "login_type=sessionId" \
 -d "json=1" \
-d api \
 -c cookie.txt \
 -k \
 https://www.ragic.com/AUTH

The returned format will look something like this:

{
"sid":"8xkz874fdftl116vkd3wgjq0t",
"email":"jeff@ragic.com",
"accounts":
  {
    "account":"demo",
    "ragicId":25,
    "external":false,
    "groups":["EVERYONE","SYSADMIN"]
  }
}