API Getting Started

Owned by Mark Poidomani
Last updated: Nov 13, 2016
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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services

In a .Net environment (Visual Studio 2005, - Visual Studio 2015) you can access the SAS WCF services by adding a service reference to your project. The service reference should be to the following endpoint:

       https://sandbox.surepassid.com/AuthServerWCFService/SurePassAuthServerWCFService.svc

When you create the service reference Visual Studio will create a proxy class to the SAS service that makes accessing the server very easy hiding the complexity of web service Soap messages. This proxy class will contain all the methods that are supported by the SAS server. Each method in the proxy class maps directly to the same methods in the Rest/Json interface.

REST Interface

The REST interface provides a simple and easy RESTful interface to the MFAS services. This interface is recommended for integrating the MFAS services into the following applications:

  • PHP apps
  • Python apps
  • .net apps
  • Java apps
  • any server based app that supports REST

The format of the REST requests are:

http POST to:

https://server/AuthServer/REST/U2F/U2FServer.aspx

where server is:

The REST request body is a json structure that specifies the type of action to be performed. All requests have the following common parameters:

  • 'type' – The type of request to be  performed  by the server.  The following types are supported.
  • 'username' – The username (or token for the user) that this action is to be performed on.
  • 'spAccountLoginName'  – Your SurePassId server account name
  • 'spAccountLoginKey' – Your SurePassId server account  key


You can get your SurePass account credentials (server account name and key) from the the portal.  After logging in go to Settings and you will see the following page where the values are displayed. 

The system supports the following request api functions:


A sample REST request body is a json request and looks like this:

Rest/Json Request Example - Send Pass Code via SMS
{ 
  "type": "send_oath_otp",
  "username": "Manny",
  "spAccountLoginName": "accountname", 
  "spAccountLoginKey": "accountkey",
  "deliveryMethod": "sms"
}

 

The REST response body is a json structure. All responses have the following items at a minimum:

 

  • type - Echo of the type that was made on the request
  • errorCode – The numeric error code for the request.  An errorCode of 0 signifies success.
  • errorMessage – The displayable  error message for the request. 


Rest/Json Response Example - Send Pass Code
{
  "type": "send_oath_otp",
  "errorCode": 0,
  "errorMessage": "OK"
}