Rest API : basic authentification

[Achref1]

Hi,
after i authentificate with basic auth through my mobile app , next time i want to get data or to accees to Doctypes how i authentificate ??

ps: i got this Json response after the login : {message: Logged In, home_page: /desk, full_name: Achref}
there is no token !
any idea ?
thanks in advance

[Maheshwari_Bhavesh]

You should pass cookies

[Achref1]

thanks , there is any documentation for doing that ?

[MartinHBramwell]

Token Based Authentication Not working

Hi, I am trying to make use of erpnext token based authentication, but instead of generating the api key & api secret from web console. I was using the RPC api call to generate api secret. /api/method/frappe.core.doctype.user.user.generate_keys?user=user_name But the issue which I am facing is that when I retrieve the api_secret using the RPC api call, that api_secret is not working and does not authenticate me. On the other hand if I get the api_secret using the web UI that is working. I am …

[Achref1]

@MartinHBramwell i have been trying to use cookies but i have got this error :
POST /api/resource/Employee%20Checkin HTTP/1.1" 403 → forbidden !!!

[MartinHBramwell]

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