POST /login

Operation:

POST /login

Description:

Login with HTTP POST request.
The request body must contain a MIME Base64 encoding of your credentials in the form:

user@organization:password

Since:

0.9

Input parameters

Consume media type(s):

None

Input type:

None

Output parameters

OrgListType

The response includes an authorization token in this format:

x-vcloud-authorization: token

Include this header in all subsequent requests.

Produce media type(s):

application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.orgList+xml

Output type:

OrgListType

Examples

Request

HTTP 1.1
POST /api/login

Headers:
Authorization: Basic dmNsb3VkQFN5c3RlbTp2Y2xvdWQ=

Body:

Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Headers:
Content-Length: 646
Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.orglist+xml;version=5.5
Set-Cookie: vcloud-token=Xg+un2PmA/UnTwbl19Uw4D54Rwx+/lmoFwaKrVm2av8=; Secure; Path=/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
x-vcloud-authorization: Xg+un2PmA/UnTwbl19Uw4D54Rwx+/lmoFwaKrVm2av8=

Body:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><OrgList
    xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/org/"
    type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.orgList+xml"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5 http://https://vcloud.example.com/api/v1.5/schema/master.xsd">
    <Org
        href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/org/7b832bc5-3d65-45a2-8d35-da28388ab80a"
        name="Default"
        type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.org+xml"/>
    <Org
        href="https://vcloud.example.com/api/org/a93c9db9-7471-3192-8d09-a8f7eeda85f9"
        name="System"
        type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.org+xml"/>
</OrgList>