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Using PhenixID HTTP API for session verification (get userID and authentication method)

Overview

To use the API, one method is called. It will return:

- HTTP Status code 200 if session is still valid. Authentication method (auth_method) and user ID (userid) will be returned.

- HTTP Status code 403 if session is not valid.  

Prerequisites

- PhenixID Authentication Services HTTP API configured

Verify session - data to be fetched before api call

The api client must fetch this value:

- access_token

 How this parameter is fetched may differ depending on the use case:

- Query string parameter

- Cookie value

- Previous api method response value

Verify session - api call

Request

Method: HTTP PUT

Endpoint: /api/authentication/verifyUser

Headers:

Name Value
Mandatory Comment
Content-Type application/json Yes
tenant t1 Yes .Value must be given to you by PhenixID Authentication Services admin, it might differ depending on the environment.
Authorization <basic_auth_value> No If applicable, username and password must be given to you by PhenixID Signing Service admin.

Body:

The body must contains a json structure.

{
"access_token":"..",
} 

Json structure properties:

Name Value Mandatory Comment
access_token <access_token> Yes Access token passed by PhenixID Authentication Services in previous flow (not described here)

Example request (Please note that authorization data is not included in this example).

 

PUT /api/authentication/verifyUser HTTP/1.1
Host: demo.phenixid.net
Content-Type: application/json
tenant: t1
Cache-Control: no-cache
{ "access_token":"bcad1335-96b8-445b-826f-51a63622c741" }

Response

Response

The HTTP Response status code may have one of these values:

1. 200. Session is valid. Body will contain user data.

2. 403. Session is not valid - user must re-authenticate.

 

The response body JSON structure properties: 

Name Possible values Comment
auth_method bankid
telia
freja
foreign_eid

The authentication method the user authenticated with.
As of today, auth_method will contain either telia or bankid.


userid
The userid of the user. As of today this will contain the personal number of the user.

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 390010
{
    "auth_method": "bankid",
    "userid": "bclarke"
}