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Praveen Deb Access Rest ApI's from external system using portal logins
Hi All,
Is it possible to access Rest ApI's from external system using cusomer portal logins(portal licence, profile etc) instead of regular salesforce user (sys admin).
Thanks in Advance!!
Is it possible to access Rest ApI's from external system using cusomer portal logins(portal licence, profile etc) instead of regular salesforce user (sys admin).
Thanks in Advance!!
The short answer is that the username/password OAuth flow is unavailable to customer portal users. Pat Patterson (who authored the articale I linked to) posted an answer to this sort of question on StackExchange (http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/19121/should-oauth2-with-grant-type-password-work-for-high-volume-customer-portal) a little under a year ago in which he states that it is not possible/suppoorted and that you should use the SOAP requests if you really must do this (please again note the security implications of storing usernames and passwords to do this).
Apologies for the incorrect original answer, it seems that portal user licenses have a couple of gaps making them slightly inconsistent.
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This question was asked recently here (https://developer.salesforce.com/forums/ForumsMain?id=906F0000000MG3DIAW)
The short answer is yes but you need to show a simple OAuth login page. If you don't want to show the page then the requests need to be coming from a trusted netwrok to avoid the need for a security token.
We don't want to show page. We tried this one with regular admin user from trusted network, its working fine But not working for customer portal user. Following is error.
Error: Bad Request, no protocal
There should be a more detailed error message than that - could you please post that up to try and help with the debugging. Can you verify as well that you have followed the steps as instructed in this guide (https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/developer-relations/2013/02/oauth-for-portal-users.html)
We don't have any login page and sso setup so we didn't follow that guide. All we need is access these API's from external program (http requests) on button click.
We are trying from trusted network but no luck, do you have any workable process/links for customer portal user with out login page.
The short answer is that the username/password OAuth flow is unavailable to customer portal users. Pat Patterson (who authored the articale I linked to) posted an answer to this sort of question on StackExchange (http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/19121/should-oauth2-with-grant-type-password-work-for-high-volume-customer-portal) a little under a year ago in which he states that it is not possible/suppoorted and that you should use the SOAP requests if you really must do this (please again note the security implications of storing usernames and passwords to do this).
Apologies for the incorrect original answer, it seems that portal user licenses have a couple of gaps making them slightly inconsistent.