Authentication response

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After it receives the authentication request, your appliance authenticates the user account and responds with either an authentication confirmation code, along with an API-Token used to maintain the authenticated session, or an authentication invalid code.

HTTP/1.1 [Response Code] [Response Message]
Date: [Date]
X-FeApi-Token: [API-Token]
X-FeClient-Token: [Client-Token]

Response fields

  • Response Code—A standard HTML response code.

    • 200—Authentication Success

    • 401—Authentication Refused

    • 503—Web Services API server disabled

  • Response Message—A standard HTML response message.

    • OK—Authentication Success

    • Unauthorized—Authentication Refused

    • Not available—Web Services API server disabled

  • Date—Standard HTML date format

  • API-Token—This token authenticates the session. By default, the session times out after 15 minutes of inactivity.

  • Client-Token—(Optional) This client token is provided by Trellix. For more information about the client token, contact your sales representative.

Example

The following is an example of a valid response received from an appliance.

HTTP/1.1 [Response Code] [Response Message]
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:00:00
X-FeApi-Token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
X-FeClient-Token: BigDataInc