Authentication: retrieve session ID for a user

You can use a session ID (SID) to authenticate your calls to the SData API and perform actions under the user account to which the SID belongs. To retrieve a session ID, submit your user name and password to Sage CRM as shown below.

Headers


Key	Value
Content-Type	application/xml

HTTP

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POST http://{{server}}/crm/eware.dll/webservices/soap

URI parameters


Name	Description
{{server}}	Name or IP address of a Sage CRM server.

Request body


Tag	Description
<username></username>	Use this tag to submit the user name of the Sage CRM account whose SID you want to retrieve. Example <username>Admin</username>
<password></password>	Use this tag to submit the password of the Sage CRM account whose SID you want to retrieve.

Sample response

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <logonresponsetype xmlns="http://tempuri.org/type">
            <result>
                <sessionid>125407476439516</sessionid>
            </result>
        </logonresponsetype>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


Name	Description
<sessionid></sessionid>	Contains SID of the user account.