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It is very straight forward as mentioned in FAQs. Once cookie is generated successfully, you will get cookie that you can then use in other controllers/methods for user authentication.

Steps are:

1. Create ‘nonce’ by using core get_nonce method https://your-domain/api/get_nonce/?controller=auth&method=generate_auth_cookie
2. You can then use ‘nonce’ value to generate cookie. https://your-domain/api/auth/generate_auth_cookie/?nonce=f4320f4a67&username=Catherine&password=password-here
3. Use cookie like this with your other controller calls: https://your-domain/api/contoller-name/method-name/?cookie=Catherine|1392018917|3ad7b9f1c5c2cccb569c8a82119ca4fd

Hope it helps..

Hello,
First step is okay for me.
Second step, I get this return :
{“status”:”error”,”error”:”Unknown controller ‘auth’.”}

Here is my url :
http:/my-domain-name/api/auth/generate_auth_cookie/?nonce=6aa27a411c&username=collaborateur_wk&password=061bfabc4eedf846684f8044d718bb36

Where :
“6aa27a411c” is the nonce returned in the first step, and the password is the md5 crypted password of the user “collaborateur_wk”

I guess this is because I still don’t understand exactly how to use it, that’s why I post here as a reply.
Thanks for you further answer.

password is not encrypted. if you want to md5 it, you can but change the code inside plugin. I will also make it md5 encrypted password in the next release.

Okay, but I tried already with the password not encrypted (actually, this was my first guess).
But still it does not work.
I thought It’s because the user is only subscriber, I tried also with an admin user, but doesn’t work either.

Some details :
first step :
https://domain-name/api/get_nonce/?controller=auth&method=generate_auth_cookie
received : {“status”:”ok”,”controller”:”auth”,”method”:”generate_auth_cookie”,”nonce”:”2b7e7fe054″}

second step :
https://domain-name/api/auth/generate_auth_cookie/?nonce=2b7e7fe054&username=user_benj&password=password-not-encrypted
Any idea ?
Thanks again.

have you installed any capthca code? may be that is stopping it from providing valid cookie. Otherwise it should work, there is nothing complex.

No, I don’t use captcha for authentication.

My website is restricted on logged in user and ip address. But my IP address is unrestricted then I guess, it’s not the problem.
What kind of other informations could you need to help me ?…

I will try to use your plugin on a blank website… instead of my website, already settled.

Ali Qureshi thank you and i will looking forward for the release with the md5..

@bperney can i have the full code so i can copy it with my app?.. just the login with dummy user and password will do.. Thanks..

@kisekicyd Actually, I didn’t write the code in my app yet.
Just used a browser to go to the right URL with parameters and tried to generate cookies.
Can it be a problem ?

Hi

I had the same {“status”:”error”,”error”:”Unknown controller ‘auth’.”} error myself. Perhaps you want to check your WordPress site Settings->JSON API. Then you need to activate the JSON-API Auth controller (it is not activated by default as far as I know, in contrast to the core controller.

Hope this helps