Establish Connection & Store Cookie

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In this article we provide an example API call to establish your connection and store cookies.

Why Establish Connection & Store Cookie?

This is needed to establish the connection and store the cookie on a successful login attempt. This will allow you to do API calls to the API client.

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Example API to Establish Connection & Store Cookie

Note: This is an example.

Con.cookieContainer = New CookieContainer
Con.handler = New Http.HttpClientHandler With {.CookieContainer = Con.cookieContainer, .UseDefaultCredentials = Con.DConnection.Trusted}
Con.client = New HttpClient(Con.handler)
Con.client.Timeout = TimeSpan.FromHours(24)

Dim Param = New APIAuthRequest With {
.Name = ApplicationName,
.Secret = APIKey
}
Dim URL As String = ""
URL = Con.DConnection.Server & "extapi/APIAuthentication/Login"
Dim Params As StringContent = New StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(Param, Formatting.Indented), Encoding.UTF8, "application/json")
Con.openResponse = Con.client.PostAsync(URL, Params).GetAwaiter().GetResult()
If Con.openResponse.IsSuccessStatusCode Then
Dim loginResponse = Con.openResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult()
Dim loginInfo = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of OktaToken)(loginResponse)
Con.client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = New Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", loginInfo.AccessToken)
Con.cookieContainer.GetCookies(New Uri(URL))

If loginInfo.MFA Then
Return "MFA"
End If

Return "Success"
Else
Return Con.openResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult()
End If

Once you have established a connection, click here for API call examples.