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.  However, your email address needs added to the whitelist before you will begin to receive these.  Once this is in place, you can request a password reset by clicking on the associated "Reset Password" link on the test or operational website.

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:

$ echo -n 'me@letmein.com:MyPassw0rd!' | base64
bWVAbGV0bWVpbi5jb206TXlQYXNzdzByZCE=

Once you have the output from this command, you can then include it in the --header command for your curl command to make the website request (Note the --header parameter with the string from above)

$ /usr/bin/curl -k -A "Mozilla/5.0" -i --header "Authorization: Basic bWVAbGV0bWVpbi5jb206TXlQYXNzdzByZCE=" --data "type=DOMESTIC&flightRules=VFR&aircraftIdentifier=TTTDEMO&departure=HOU&destination=MIA&departureInstant=2015-03-13T00:53:00.0&flightDuration=PT1H30M&route=LEV%20Q102%20CYY%20SSCOT&altDestination1=LAX&altDestination2=SEA&aircraftType=P28A&numberOfAircraft=3&heavyWakeTurbulence=true&aircraftEquipment=G&remarks=This%20is%20a%20domestic%20flight%20plan%20test&speedKnots=100&altitudeFL=35&fuelOnBoard=PT20H0M&pilotData=PILOT%20INFO&peopleOnBoard=1&aircraftColor=W" "https://[Operational or Test Environment URL]/rest/FP/file" -v

Authorization

As part of creating your account, we will authorize the account to make web service calls.  Once this is activated, you are authorized to make any of the web service calls available on the WSDL.  If you chose to use credentialed filing, the web user will need to authorize you to make web service calls on their behalf.  More on that in credentialed vs. non credentialed services here.