How to pass username and password in TeamCity REST API

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I've just started to experiment with the TeamCity REST API. I've been some of the documentation about what types of commands I can call, etc, but one thing which is not mentioned is how to pass a username and password to the API.

I've not been able to find examples of this; so can someone help me out please?

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '12 at 15:06

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like this:

http://user:pass@server:port/app/rest/..... etc

I found that on the EAP Docs Site

answered Jun 13 '12 at 15:06

Preet Sangha

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Many thanks for that. Hmmm, not sure if I like the idea of including the username and password in the url like that. Will ask the team if they have a https: available for the TeamCity server. – Jason Evans Jun 13 '12 at 15:16
I think you can use SSL on Team city. – Preet Sangha Jun 13 '12 at 15:17
Even with SSL (https), does that not still mean I need to pass username and password in the url, which means I'm not better off? Sorry for sounding such a newbie here, this stuff is new to me. – Jason Evans Jun 13 '12 at 16:00
Cheers for that explanation, much appreciated :) – Jason Evans Jun 13 '12 at 16:15
updated docs here: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD10/Accessing+Server+by+HTTP – brntsllvn Jan 27 '17 at 00:01

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '17 at 01:58

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Thanks for Sangha's answer. Just one more supplement.

Please remember to encode user id and password using Base64.

answered Jun 13 '17 at 01:58

Eugene

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only needed, if you've got special chars in your id/pwd – rundekugel Feb 22 '23 at 19:53

How to pass username and password in TeamCity REST API

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