Classic ASP

Get Populi Access Key (Token)

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Demonstrates how to authenticate and obtain an access key using a username and password. Classic ASP

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

'  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

'  Connect using TLS.
'  A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Populi REST API calls.
'  The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
'  then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("yourcollege.populi.co",443,1,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

success = rest.AddQueryParam("username","POPULI_USERNAME")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("password","POPULI_PASSWORD")

responseBody = rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/api/index.php")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  We should expect a 200 response if successful.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Request Header: ") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastRequestHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "----") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response StatusCode = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response StatusLine: " & rest.ResponseStatusText) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Header:") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.ResponseHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Body:") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( responseBody) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

set xml = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
success = xml.LoadXml(responseBody)
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( xml.GetXml()) & "</pre>"

'  Sample response:
'  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
'  <response>
'  <access_key>63481e36023b5d ... 76d0dbc314</access_key>
'      <accountid>19999999</accountid>
'      <accounttype>PERSON</accounttype>
'  </response>

'  Save the XML to a file for subsequent requests..
success = xml.SaveXml("qa_data/tokens/populi_token.xml")

%>
</body>
</html>