Ruby

CardConnect Test API Credentials

To test and validate site-level credentials, you can make a GET request with no body to the base URL.

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require 'chilkat'

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

# The CardConnect REST Web Service base URL includes a protocol, host, port and servlet specification.
# 
# For example:
# https://<site>.cardconnect.com:<port>/cardconnect/rest/
# 
# This represents an HTTPS request to the REST web service base URL. 
# The servlet name is fixed within the application; the host and port are assigned by CardConnect. 

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

http.put_BasicAuth(true)
http.put_Login("API_USERNAME")
http.put_Password("API_PASSWORD")

url = "https://<site>.cardconnect.com:<port>/cardconnect/rest/"
responseStr = http.quickGetStr(url)

if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# If we get a 200 response status and an HTML response saying "CardConnect REST Servlet", then our credentials are correct.
print "response status code = " + http.get_LastStatus().to_s() + "\n";

print "response string:" + "\n";
print responseStr + "\n";

# Sample output:

# response status code = 200
# response string:
# <html lang="en"><body><h1>CardConnect REST Servlet</h1></body></html