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This token will be accepted during 9 minutes.</p> <div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode json"><code class="sourceCode json"><span class="fu">{</span> <span class="dt">"iat"</span><span class="fu">:</span> <span class="dv">1468663519</span> <span class="fu">}</span></code></pre></div> <p>See <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7519#section-4.1.6">RFC reference</a>.<a href=".html"></a></p> <h4 id="signature">Signature</h4> <p>The signature authenticate the token validity. It contains the base64 of the header and the body, separated by a dot <code>.</code>, hashed in SHA512 with the API secret available in Shaarli administration page.</p> <p>Signature example with PHP:</p> <div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode php"><code class="sourceCode php"><span class="kw">$content</span> = <span class="fu">base64_encode</span><span class="ot">(</span><span class="kw">$header</span><span class="ot">)</span> . <span class="st">'.'</span> . <span class="fu">base64_encode</span><span class="ot">(</span><span class="kw">$payload</span><span class="ot">);</span> <span class="kw">$signature</span> = <span class="fu">hash_hmac</span><span class="ot">(</span><span class="st">'sha512'</span><span class="ot">,</span> <span class="kw">$content</span><span class="ot">,</span> <span class="kw">$secret</span><span class="ot">);</span></code></pre></div> <h3 id="complete-example">Complete example</h3> <h4 id="php">PHP</h4> <div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode php"><code class="sourceCode php"><span class="kw">function</span> generateToken<span class="ot">(</span><span class="kw">$secret</span><span class="ot">)</span> { <span class="kw">$header</span> = <span class="fu">base64_encode</span><span class="ot">(</span><span class="st">'{</span> <span class="st"> "typ": "JWT",</span> <span class="st"> "alg": "HS512"</span> <span class="st"> }'</span><span class="ot">);</span> <span class="kw">$payload</span> = <span class="fu">base64_encode</span><span class="ot">(</span><span class="st">'{</span> <span class="st"> "iat": '</span>. <span class="fu">time</span><span class="ot">()</span> .<span class="st">'</span> <span class="st"> }'</span><span class="ot">);</span> <span class="kw">$signature</span> = <span class="fu">hash_hmac</span><span class="ot">(</span><span class="st">'sha512'</span><span class="ot">,</span> <span class="kw">$header</span> .<span class="st">'.'</span>. <span class="kw">$payload</span> <span class="ot">,</span> <span class="kw">$secret</span><span class="ot">);</span> <span class="kw">return</span> <span class="kw">$header</span> .<span class="st">'.'</span>. <span class="kw">$payload</span> .<span class="st">'.'</span>. <span class="kw">$signature</span><span class="ot">;</span> } <span class="kw">$secret</span> = <span class="st">'mysecret'</span><span class="ot">;</span> <span class="kw">$token</span> = generateToken<span class="ot">(</span><span class="kw">$secret</span><span class="ot">);</span> <span class="fu">echo</span> <span class="kw">$token</span><span class="ot">;</span></code></pre></div> <blockquote> <p><code>ewogICAgICAgICJ0eXAiOiAiSldUIiwKICAgICAgICAiYWxnIjogIkhTNTEyIgogICAgfQ==.ewogICAgICAgICJpYXQiOiAxNDY4NjY3MDQ3CiAgICB9.1d2c54fa947daf594fdbf7591796195652c8bc63bffad7f6a6db2a41c313f495a542cbfb595acade79e83f3810d709b4251d7b940bbc10b531a6e6134af63a68</code></p> </blockquote> <div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode php"><code class="sourceCode php"><span class="kw">$options</span> = <span class="ot">[[](</span>.html<span class="ot">)</span> <span class="st">'http'</span> => <span class="ot">[[](</span>.html<span class="ot">)</span> <span class="st">'method'</span> => <span class="st">'GET'</span><span class="ot">,</span> <span class="st">'jwt'</span> => <span class="kw">$token</span><span class="ot">,</span> <span class="ot">],</span> <span class="ot">];</span> <span class="kw">$context</span> = <span class="fu">stream_context_create</span><span class="ot">(</span><span class="kw">$options</span><span class="ot">);</span> <span class="fu">file_get_contents</span><span class="ot">(</span><span class="kw">$apiEndpoint</span><span class="ot">,</span> <span class="kw">false</span><span class="ot">,</span> <span class="kw">$context</span><span class="ot">);</span></code></pre></div> </body> </html>