Authenticate and open a session against the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) API
domain: developer.ebsco.com · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
POST application credentials to /authservice/rest/uidauth to obtain an authentication token
POST to /edsapi/rest/createsession with that auth token and a guest parameter ('y' or 'n' based on end-user login state)
Read the session token from the response and include it (x-sessionToken header) on subsequent /edsapi/rest/search and /edsapi/rest/retrieve calls
Re-call createsession to obtain a fresh session token if the current one expires
Known gotchas
Application authentication (uidauth) and end-user authentication are independent layers; a valid application token alone does not authenticate the end user for personalization features
Guest sessions (guest=y) can have a different results scope than authenticated end-user sessions depending on the institutional EDS profile
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