RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Generating an authentication cookie

Authentication is required for provisioning the IT resources. For this purpose, we will be required to generate an authentication cookie using the Authenticate User REST API. The details of the API are as follows:

API details	Description
API function	Authenticate supplied user credential and generate authentication cookie for use in the subsequent API calls.
Endpoint	<RESTEndpoint captured in previous section>/authenticate/ Example: https://compute.eucom-north-1.oracleCloud.com/authenticate/
HTTP method	POST
Request header properties	Content-Type:application/oracle-compute-v3+jsonAccept: application/oracle-compute-v3+json
Request body	user: Two-part name of the user ...