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Item10321: command line invocations should be processed as if it was a POST

Priority: Enhancement
Current State: No Action Required
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Applies To: Engine
Component: bin/rest (or any bin)
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Reported By: KiltBear
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Last Change By: GeorgeClark

Command line invocations of foswiki/bin scripts should behave as if they were POSTs instead of GETs and be assumed to be authenticated if AdminUser is specified.

Reasoning

In working around a (perceived) limitation with WorkflowPlugin, I attempted to create a shell script that would run

cd foswiki/bin ; ./rest -user AdminUser /WorkflowPlugin/changeState \
    topic=$someweb.$sometopic \
    WORKFLOWACTION=Some%Action \
    WORKFLOWSTATE=SOMESPECIFICSTATE

but that created a security (not allowed to GET) error so instead I had to use:

curl -u -s User:Password https://wiki.some.tld/bin/rest/WorkflowPlugin/changeState \
    -d topic=$someweb.$sometopic \
    -d WORKFLOWACTION=Some%Action \
    -d WORKFLOWSTATE=SOMESPECIFICSTATE

which necessitated placing the password for the user in the script.

-- KiltBear - 04 Feb 2011

This should be fixed in 1.2. UI::Rest bypasses the POST check when running from the CLI.

-- GeorgeClark - 07 Jan 2015

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Summary	command line invocations should be processed as if it was a POST
ReportedBy	KiltBear
Codebase	1.1.2
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AppliesTo	Engine
Component	bin/rest (or any bin)
Priority	Enhancement
CurrentState	No Action Required
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