Identification check from OpenFlyers for third party software
Presentation
Here is an presentation of how to check if an identification/password couple submitted by your own scripts is correct according to the OpenFlyers database.
The script returns a value which indicate if the connexion with the given login/password has succeeded and it states. An OpenFlyers cookie is also sent to manage a user session on your website, using the user's OpenFlyer's account.
How it works
If your OpenFlyers is located at http://openflyers.com/platform-name/ just post at http://openflyers.com/platform-name/checkIdent.php with login and rawPassword variables.
Warning: OpenFlyers release 2 or higher required a password hashed with MD5 (see the commented $postData line below in the PHP script).
Possible return values
The script display return an answer code which should be one of this value:
- 0: OK
- 1: OK but several profile availables. OpenFlyers select automatically the best profile.
- 2: outdate but authorized
- 3: outdate but authorized with outdate profile
- 4: outdate subscription, unauthorized
- 5: bad Ident, unauthorized
- 6: Banned (ip or login), unauthorized
- 7: no Ident -> ask one
We recommend you to consider 0-2 OK and 3-7 bad
Warning: you have to filter public access login (with no right) because for OF, it's a valid access !!!
JavaScript
If you are using your own authenticate form, use javascript function submit_pwd() located into \javascript\submitPwd.js
PHP code example
Please replace platform-name with your OpenFlyers platform's name, replace your-login with your OpenFlyers login and your-password with your OpenFlyers password.
Here an example how to send a post request with php :
<syntaxhighlight lang="php">// PHP 5.6 is required
// OpenSSL 1.0.1 is required
function httpPostRequest($host, $path, $postData) {
$result= ""; $request = "POST $path HTTP/1.1\n". "Host: $host\n". (isset($referer) ? "Referer: $referer\n" : ""). "Content-type: Application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n". "Content-length: ".strlen($postData)."\n". "Connection: close\n\n". $postData."\n"; // Some debug informations:
print("
Request:\n".htmlentities($request)."
");
if ($fp = fsockopen($host, 443, $errno, $errstr, 3)) { // Set cryptology method // @link http://php.net/manual/en/function.stream-socket-enable-crypto.php if (!defined('STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_2_CLIENT')) { die('STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_2_CLIENT IS REQUIRED'); } $cryptoMethod = STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_2_CLIENT; // Activate encryption while authenticating stream_socket_enable_crypto($fp, true, $cryptoMethod); if (fputs($fp, $request)) { while(! feof($fp)) { $result.= fgets($fp, 128); } // Deactivate encryption once authenticating done stream_socket_enable_crypto($fp, false); fclose($fp); //print($result); return $result; } }
}
$postData = 'login=jbond&rawPassword='.md5('007'); $rawContent = httpPostRequest('openflyers.com','https://openflyers.com/plateform-name/checkIdent.php',$postData);
list($header, $content) = explode("\r\n\r\n", $rawContent, 2); list($byteQty, $realContent, $dummy) = explode("\r\n", $content, 3);
// the answer is in $realContent</php>
Joomla authentification plugin
If you have a Joomla website and you want that Openflyers users could connect to your Joomla restricted access zone, you may add this plugin to have only one account database: Openflyers one. You don't need to update Joomla user database, this plugin ask directly Openflyers thanks to CheckIdent.php script.