RESTful Login Service

This section describes the RESTful Login Web service that you can use to authenticate a user, log into Logger, and establish a session ID to use When making API calls.

The RESTful Login Service supports HTTP GET and POST requests described below.

Micro Focus recommends that you use POST instead of GET when making a call to the REST login() API, so that the username and password are not written to the Apache logs.

You should use GET for testing purposes only. When using GET, be aware that:

• The URL parameters (such as username and password) will be written to the Apache logs.
• The URL parameters must be url-encoded.