cURL code sample: authentication

-q—This option specifies that the curlrc configuration file will not be read or used. Although this is an optional setting, Trellix recommends that you include this option.

-g—This option turns off the URL globbing parser. Although this is an optional setting, Trellix recommends that you include this option.

-s—This option turns off the progress meter and error message. Although this is an optional setting, Trellix recommends that you include this option.

-S—When used with the -s option, this option shows error messages if your cURL switch fails. Although this is an optional setting, Trellix recommends that you include this option.

-k—This option explicitly allows cURL to perform insecure SSL connections and transfers. This allows you to test your SSL connection without installing a CA certificate.

-H—This option allows you to specify a custom header with the --header switch.

--no-progress-bar—This option suppresses the cURL download progress bar, which can interfere with the request.

--header "Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp0ZXN0"—This custom header provides a base64-encoded user name and password to be used to authenticate with your appliance. In this example, dGVzdDp0ZXN0 resolves to the user name:password key pair: test:test.

-D /cygdrive/c/tmp/auth.txt—This file name and path include the response from your appliance. The contents of this file appear as follows:

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 03:03:15 GMT X-FeApi-Token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

-F form=foo— The -F option and the subsequent empty form force the cURL tool to use the HTTP POST request.

https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443/wsapis/v2.0.0/auth/login—The authentication request URL. Replace the IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the actual IP address of your appliance.