Authentication¶

Logging in as a Frontend-User with the TYPO3 RestApi¶

The EXT:nnrestapi ships with an endpoint for logging in as a frontend-user (fe_user) and for checking the login-status of the current user.

nnrestapi offers three different options for authenticating:

Authorization via JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
Cookie-based Authorization. This uses the same fe_typo_user cookie that is set for "normal" Frontend-Users.
Basic Authorization via HTTP

To learn how to authenticate, dive in to one of the following recipes:

Link to documentation	Content
Configuring access right	Make sure, not anybody can access certain endpoints. Restrict access to certain frontend-users or -groups.
Authentication via HTTP Basic Auth	How to set username and password for individual users and as a global api-key for multiple users. The authentication will work using the HTTP Basic Authentication.
Frontend example, plain JS	Example fe_user-auth using nothing but pure JavaScript ("VanillaJS"). Requires a modern browser that support ES6+ (anything but Internet Explorer 11 and below)
Frontend example, legacy JS	Example fe_user-auth using nothing but pure JavaScript ("VanillaJS"). Same like above, but for older browsers that can't use `fetch()` (e.g. Internet Explorer 11 and below)
Frontend example with AXIOS	Pure JavaScript solution, but with a little help from the great JS library "axios" that makes life a little easier.
Frontend example with jQuery	If you still like jQuery, although the world is moving somewhere else, here is an example for the authentication using jQuery.

Test your API and play with the code in our CodePens:

Link to CodePen	Content
Plain JS	Authentication using Pure JavaScript (Vanilla JS) and ES6
Legacy JS	Authentication for older Browsers (IE11 and below)
AXIOS	Authentication using AXIOS