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Authenticating an Anonymous User

Description

This API is used to authenticate an anonymous user when the user joins a meeting. Based on the meeting ID and password authentication, an authentication random number is returned. The random number can be used to obtain anonymous user details and meeting details.

Debugging

You can debug this API in API Explorer.

Prototype

Table 1 Prototype

Request Method

GET

Request Address

/v1/mmc/management/conferences/anonymous/auth

Transport Protocol

HTTPS

Request Parameters

Table 2 Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Location

Description

conferenceID

Yes

String

Query

Meeting ID.

X-Password

Yes

String

Header

Meeting password.

Status Codes

Table 3 Status codes

HTTP Status Code

Description

200

Operation successful.

400

Invalid parameters.

401

Authentication is not performed or fails.

403

Insufficient permissions.

500

Server exception.

Response Parameters

Table 4 Response parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

siteUrl

String

Next-hop URL.

random

String

Authentication random number.

Example Request

GET /v1/mmc/management/conferences/anonymous/auth?conferenceID=914047175
Connection: keep-alive
X-Password: *******
user-agent: WeLink-desktop
Host: api.meeting.huaweicloud.com
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.3 (Java/1.8.0_191)

Example Response

HTTP/1.1 200 
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 06:20:40 GMT
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 126
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: 0
Pragma: No-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
http_proxy_id: 2d5d7b5342900131401c88617b8d4c45
Server: api-gateway
X-Request-Id: f37bf796d6203d994d3cfb2b4d318ac4

{
    "siteUrl": "https://117.78.2.254:443/conferences",
    "random": "108860505401300"
}

Error Codes

If an error code starting with MMC or USG is returned when you use this API, rectify the fault by following the instructions provided in Huawei Cloud API Error Center.

Example cURL Command

curl -k -i -X GET -H 'X-Password:******' https://api.meeting.huaweicloud.com/v1/mmc/management/conferences/anonymous/auth?conferenceID=914047175
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