For myself

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POST method only

 

Use this web service every time you need to request a certificate to identify yourself in subsequent requests to the API. For security reasons, the certificate will expire 60 seconds after its creation.

To create a certificate for yourself, you need to provide your user_token to the web service. Please, check this to understand where to find this parameter.

 
Input:

Body:

Key Required Type Description
user_token True string The randomly generated alphanumeric string when creating your PSI user account

 

Headers:

None

 

Output:

1st level JSON 2nd level JSON Type Description

user_cert

string The certificate with the credentials to make subsequent calls to the API

status

string “OK” if the request was correct; “NOK” otherwise

http_status

int The HTTP status code

error_trace:

[

list List of errors' data that occurred during the request

{

dict

error_name

string The error that occurred during the request. You may retrieve more information about it with parameter “errors_url”

error_message

string The explanation of the error

error_code

string The internal error code, in case you need to contact support to get it fixed.

}

]

errors_url

string The URL to the list of errors, to retrieve more information