Login

Description

POST a login request to the SoftNAS Cloud® API, creating an active session with the SoftNAS Cloud® Admin Server.

POST login username password

Request

Login is based on the Standard Request Structure.

For specific parameter definitions, see section Parameters

Example

Login using PHP.

<?php

$mypath = getcwd();

$mypath = preg_replace('/\\\\/', '/', $mypath);

$rand = rand(1, 15000);

$cookie_file_path = "$mypath/cookies/cookie$rand.txt";

$data = array(

'username' => 'softnas',

'password' => 'Pass4W0rd'

);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://example.com/softnas/login.php");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE );

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE );

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path); // Cookie management.

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, TRUE);

$output = curl_exec($ch);

$info = curl_getinfo($ch);

curl_close($ch);

echo $info;

Example Output

{

"result": {},

"session_id": 8062,

"success": true

}