Internal GCManage API

Authentication With GCManage 2.0

Before calling any of the GCAPI services, an application must authenticate and obtain a "passcode" from GCManage. GCManage provides a service to fetch the accounts available to a user and their "passcodes" given the user's name and password. This service is useful when implementing an third-party login page for GCManage or when calling services on GCAPI. The format for calling this function is:

https://[GCManage-URL]/services.php?sname=LoginService&username=[username]&password=[plain-text-password]&listaccounts=true

The result of the call will be be a JSON encoded string that includes a list of accounts that this user can access:

{
   "result": "OK",
   "id": "c07c11ee-3a27-47e5-9c81-7857de364cdc",
   "lastLogin": "never",
   "accounts": [
       {
           "accountName": "...",
           "systemId": "...",
           "passcode": "...",
           "url": "..."
       },
       ... 
   ]
}

• result: OK if the call succeeded, ERROR otherwise
• errorMessage: Only appears if result is ERROR. Explanation of why call failed
• id: User's unique ID
• lastLogin: User's last login date/time
• accounts: Array of accounts this user has access to
• accountName: Long name for the account
• systemId: ID of associated hardware for the account
• passcode: Effectively the "password" for the system. The passcode changes daily in the very early morning, so it needs to be fetched again every day
• url: Base URL used to communicate with the system

Legacy Authentication With GCManage 1.5

Authentication was a little different in GCManage 1.5.x:

http://[GCManage-URL]/services.php?sname=remotelogin&username=[username]&password=[php-crypted-password]

The result of the call will be be a list of accounts, one per line, that this user can access. Each line is of the format:

[como-system-url]@@[passcode]@@[starting-point]@@[account-description]

• como System URL: The URL to use to get to the system, either proxied or direct, based on the caller's location and other various elements on the server
• passcode: Effectively the "password" for the system. The passcode changes daily in the very early morning, so it needs to be fetched again every day
• Starting Point: The initial menu screen the user sees when connecting to the system. Either "main" for the Main Menu or "tv" for the TV Operations Page
• Account Description: An identifier giving various information about the account