.NET Web Authentication

Done what? Authenticated someone against Lawson from a .NET application?

Yes I would like to authenticate against Lawson from a .NET Web application.

The way I do it is to make an HTTP request to cgi-lawson/printenv.exe; which authenticates against Lawson.

There is a

http://law-dev-web1.prod....en.exe?func=myfunc()

This returns some javascript. I have only done a small amount of web and that was mostly ASP clasic.

Do you have sample code?

--JayR

I will be publishing an article about this very topic in an upcoming LawsonGuru Letter. Stay tuned!

The article on calling AGS from VB is here:
https://www.danalytics.co.../archive/2006-08.htm

John, do you have more in dept sample of the article above? Where can I find out more about making a call to AGS or DMI? When making these type of call, does Lawson authenticate the requester?

Thanks,
Charlie

I don't have a sample that I'd want to post here. If you want to learn more about AGS & DME, there is a lot of information on the Lawson knowledgebase; Both DME and AGS are pretty simple to figure out; they are simply ways to query (DME) and update (AGS) the Lawson data via a URL. The only hard part is getting the URL string correct, with all the right parameters. If you use one of the Lawson-provided "Query Builder" tools (from ProcessFlow, Design Studio, OLEDB Provider, etc.) you can build the URL strings pretty easily.

When you call AGS/DME from Visual Basic via an HTTP object, the username/password as properties of the HTTP object. This is what triggers the authentication.