Not able to access REST API at ESRF

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Hi Tango dancers! and Happy 2020!

I was recently trying the REST API and I found in the documentation:
https://tango-controls.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/advanced/rest-api.html#deployment
a mention about the ESRF REST API. Is it supposed to work?

I’m trying:

curl -u “tango-cs:tango” https://mstatus.esrf.fr/tango/rest

and I get HTTP Status 401 – Unauthorized

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HTTP Status 401 – Unauthorized

Type Status Report

Description The request has not been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the target resource.

Apache Tomcat/9.0.14

While when testing it on my REST server instance I get:

curl -u “tango-cs:tango” http://localhost:10001/tango/rest
{“rc4”:“http://localhost:10001/tango/rest/rc4",“v10”:"http://localhost:10001/tango/rest/v10”}

Cheers,
Zibi

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Hi Zibi,

Since Jan’19 ESRF REST is integrated with ESRF LDAP. You need to provide ESRF LDAP credentials to access REST.

Your local installation uses plain authentication hence built-in credentials (tango-cs|tango) work.

More on authentication can be found here: Home · tango-controls/rest-server Wiki · GitHub

Documentation needs to be updated indeed.

Cheers,