New User Registration Sequence for Services 3.4?

Question

This comment outlines a working way to login with the new CSRF token:

1. POST to /rest/user/login (nothing in headers). Construct the $cookie from session name + id
2. GET to /services/session/token (include $cookie in the headers). Save the $token returned.
3. Include $cookie and $token in the headers of subsequent requests of a logged in user.

That sequence works even though the first POST happens without sending the token. (The documentation suggests that the token should be used for any POST requests, which does not work in this case.)

What is a working sequence of HTTP requests to register a new user account? I'm looking for what requests to make in what order - not implementation code.

UPDATE: To be clear, I'm not looking for the login sequence. I need a sequence of requests (similar to login example above) that allow a new user to *register* their account.

Failed Attempt with system/connect:

1. GET:services/session/token

2. POST:system/connect
      Content-Type: application/json
      Accepts: application/json

3. POST:user/register
      Content-Type: application/json
      Accepts: application/json
      X-CSRF-Token: [token]
      Cookie: [session_name]=[sessid]
      Body: {
               "name":"drupalspec0rVzsWAU",
               "pass":"PYKSItFK",
               "mail":"[email protected]"
      }

The Drupal user is created correctly, but the request in step 3. times out.

Answer 1

Edit: to address the change in the question

I'm looking for what requests to make in what order - not implementation code

You can safely ignore the actual code implementation below - the order of the requests remains the same. In fact, exactly the same as in your original question.

If you're already making requests in the order that you've outlined, you needn't do anything more except provide an actual implementation. I'll leave the code in as an example, and so you can see exactly what order the requests need to be made in. I've stuck some numbering in to make it more obvious; the requests are denoted by 1, 2 & 3.

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This is a basic PHP (i.e. non-Drupal) example...

First off make a generic function for sending your requests:

function send_request($url, array $post_array = array(), $cookie = NULL, $token = NULL) {
  $ch = curl_init();

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'googlebot');
  //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, $post_array);

  if (!empty($post_array)) {
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_array);
  }

  if ($cookie) {
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);
  }

  if ($token) {
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('X-CSRF-Token: ' . $token));
  }

  $result = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);

  return $result;
}

1. Then make your first call to log the user in:

// Login.
$data = array(
  'username' => 'user',
  'password' => 'password',
);

$result = send_request("http://server/endpoint/user/login.json", $data);

try {
  $result = json_decode($result);
}
catch (Exception $e) {
  die('Login failed: ' . $e->getMessage());
}

Next get the session name and ID, creating your cookie string to send with subsequent requests:

$session_id = $result->sessid;
$session_name = $result->session_name;    
$cookie = $session_name . '=' . $session_id;

2. Then get a CSRF token, making sure to pass the cookie along:

$token = send_request("http://server/services/session/token", array(), $cookie);

3. Finally you can perform your request to the endpoint you're actually interested in. The cookie and token are injected by the send_request() function.

$user = array(
  'mail' => '[email protected]',
  'name' => 'name',
  // Other relevant properties/fields.
);

$result = send_request('http://server/endpoint/user', $user, $cookie, $token);

I haven't tested the user creation endpoint so that might not be the exact structure it needs, but checking the responses for errors should let you know exactly what it's after quite quickly. I get the impression from your question that you're mainly interested in the steps leading up to that last request anyway.

The above is adapted from a basic test script I use, for a production environment you'll want to add more error/sanity checking in there. And the functionality is crying out to be wrapped in a class, and be extended to support PUT/DELETE, but I'll leave that to you :)