Authentication

In order to expedite the process of you connecting to the lab, we will provide you the initial password via email when responding to your account request.  Typically creating a new account results in an email being sent to you. Once this is in place, you So that you may begin to test integration with our web services, Leidos will create your vendor account in the Flight Service test lab. You will receive an email directing you to change the password at 1800wxbrief.com. Please use our test website to change your password: https://ffspelabs.leidos.com/Website2/#!/.

This email and password will be used as authorization for your web service requests. You can request a password reset at any time by clicking on the associated "Reset Password" link on the Flight Service test or operational website. but you will also need to update the authentication for sending HTTP web service requests.

One of the more common problems people have with their the first web service request is with authentication.  The Leidos Flight Service web services use Basic HTTP authentication with Base64 encoding with preemptive authentication.  As an example, given an email address and password me@letmein.com:MyPassw0rd!, you can run the following command in Linux to get the base64 encoding:

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•  "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded” (optional) "User-Agent: <Company or Application name> Flight Service Interface.”

Password Reset and Alias Accounts

Your web service vendor account username and password must match your Flight Service website username and password. If  If you reset your Flight Service website password, then you must update your web service account credentials.

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