https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/REST-API-Authentication-via-existing-cherrypy-session/m-p/88046#M1252 <P>Turns out I didn't need to acquire a key to fire off the searches via REST API from my Python script. </P> <P>At least this was true in my context (custom module firing AJAX request to Module Controller) where there was already a session established via splunkweb.</P> <P>Cheers,<BR /> James</P> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:31:28 GMT jamesaarondevli 2011-10-07T02:31:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/REST-API-Authentication-via-existing-cherrypy-session/m-p/88045#M1251 <P>Hi,</P> <P>is there a way to retrieve an auth token for the REST api without hard coding login credentials into the script which interacts uses the REST api?</P> <P>Cheers,<BR /> James</P> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:21:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/REST-API-Authentication-via-existing-cherrypy-session/m-p/88045#M1251 jamesaarondevli 2011-10-06T22:21:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/REST-API-Authentication-via-existing-cherrypy-session/m-p/88046#M1252 <P>Turns out I didn't need to acquire a key to fire off the searches via REST API from my Python script. </P> <P>At least this was true in my context (custom module firing AJAX request to Module Controller) where there was already a session established via splunkweb.</P> <P>Cheers,<BR /> James</P> Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:31:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/REST-API-Authentication-via-existing-cherrypy-session/m-p/88046#M1252 jamesaarondevli 2011-10-07T02:31:28Z