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.NET Web Authentication

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ridjayc

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5/26/2006 10:54 PM

I have a .NET web application that currently uses windows authentication. This grabs the current user off the machine. In some cases however it would be better for us to use Lawson's authentication. Basically the person logged into the machine may be logged into Lawson as a different user. Has anyone done this?

Thanks --JayR

John Henley

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5/30/2006 11:47 AM

Done what? Authenticated someone against Lawson from a .NET application?

ridjayc

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5/30/2006 3:11 PM

Yes I would like to authenticate against Lawson from a .NET Web application.

John Henley

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5/30/2006 4:51 PM

The way I do it is to make an HTTP request to cgi-lawson/printenv.exe; which authenticates against Lawson.

ridjayc

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5/30/2006 4:57 PM

There is a

http://law-dev-web1.prod....en.exe?func=myfunc()

This returns some javascript. I have only done a small amount of web and that was mostly ASP clasic.

Do you have sample code?

--JayR

John Henley

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5/30/2006 5:48 PM

I will be publishing an article about this very topic in an upcoming LawsonGuru Letter. Stay tuned!

John Henley

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8/7/2006 6:38 PM

The article on calling AGS from VB is here:
https://www.danalytics.co.../archive/2006-08.htm

cpham

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8/11/2006 4:29 PM

John, do you have more in dept sample of the article above? Where can I find out more about making a call to AGS or DMI? When making these type of call, does Lawson authenticate the requester?

Thanks,
Charlie

John Henley

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8/11/2006 4:52 PM

I don't have a sample that I'd want to post here. If you want to learn more about AGS & DME, there is a lot of information on the Lawson knowledgebase; Both DME and AGS are pretty simple to figure out; they are simply ways to query (DME) and update (AGS) the Lawson data via a URL. The only hard part is getting the URL string correct, with all the right parameters. If you use one of the Lawson-provided "Query Builder" tools (from ProcessFlow, Design Studio, OLEDB Provider, etc.) you can build the URL strings pretty easily.

When you call AGS/DME from Visual Basic via an HTTP object, the username/password as properties of the HTTP object. This is what triggers the authentication.