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Getting item from the Sitecore Item Service API not working remotely (403 Forbidden)
The issue here turned out to be the Sitecore.Services.SecurityPolicy setting.
By default it only allows local requests to the API and as I have more servers in the mix and a load balancer on Staging ...
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Web API 2 Attribute Routing with Sitecore 8.2+
This should actually now work out of the box on Sitecore 8.2+ including Sitecore 9 and 10 with no additional code or configuration required.
Among the resolved issues from the 8.2 release notes:
...
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Service based architecture in sitecore
Yes, it is possible to achieve your architecture using Sitecore. There are a few options for you here to do headless implementations, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, and different ...
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Best way to Use Sitecore Data for other Application?
This is a tricky question to answer as what is "best" can often depend on your solution.
So let's look at the options:
Item Web API - as @sitecorebasics said, the Item Web API is not supported in ...
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How to programmatically update item on master database from Content Delivery MVC Sitecore 8
Assuming you have xDB enabled you could perhaps use MongoDB to store your data instead.
There look to be a few approaches for doing this:
1) custom page events:
This looks like your best bet, Here ...
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Is there an API for item creation?
Item Web API
For Sitecore versions from 6+ till 8 you should use the Sitecore Item Web API.
Documentation is available here: link
Creating an Item from a Template
To create an item called ...
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Share Sitecore content to Native Mobile Apps (IOS swift and Android java)
In my point of view, JSS is pretty suite for your requirements. I've implemented something like you want with Xamarin. But I think it doesn't matter with which technology to do that because I didn't ...
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Sitecore services client 403 Forbidden
Below are different security policies for the Sitecore services. These were mentioned in "Sitecore.Services.Client.config". In order to make your services accessible remotely we would need to set ...
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Sitecore Services Client 8.2 ODataController - 406 Not Acceptable error
The pure HTTP GET request to your ProductController, assuming it was registered by the aggregate descriptor as being part of the custom service, should look something like:
GET /sitecore/api/ssc/...
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EntityService-based controllers stop working when adding a controller with a named route
This will be the way the routes get registered when applied by attributes. The correct way to register your own routes with Sitecore is to write a custom initialize pipeline processor and patch it in ...
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Can't stop the "Sitecore XConnect Search Indexer" service on Sitecore 9.0.1
Tried a reboot? Sounds like it is in a deletion state and a reboot will clear it.
When you delete a service and it is in state that cannot be removed, it flags it as "To be removed". And it is not ...
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Advantages of ServicesApiController over web API controller
ServicesApiController is just like a regular Web API controller + it has added benefits of the security and filter options which come with the Sitecore.Service.Client.
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Authentication / Login for Custom ServicesApiController
Since you say you were thinking of requiring the use of the auth/login endpoint before requests can be made to your custom controller, what you can do is add the Authorize filter as an attribute to ...
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How do I remove /sitecore from API calls?
With WebAPI you may define your custom controller routes using Route attribute. The controller below excludes the /sitecore prefix from the URL and accessible as <hostname>/api/my:
[RoutePrefix(...
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Minimum Sitecore references required to implement an API solution using Sitecore.Services.Client framework?
You don't need to reference any Sitecore dlls in order to be able to use the Sitecore REST API. These APIs are defined in the developer's guide available on SDN.
(This document does not seem to have ...
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Minimum Sitecore references required to implement an API solution using Sitecore.Services.Client framework?
As per the Sitecore Nuget feed, https://sitecore.myget.org/feed/sc-packages/package/nuget/Sitecore.Services.Client, these are the required assemblies/frameworks needed by the Sitecore.Services.Client ...
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Is there an API for item creation?
You can also use the Sitecore ItemService API to do this like so:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "http://<your server>/sitecore/api/ssc/item/sitecore%2Fcontent%2Fhome ");
xhr....
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What is the purpose of disabled.aspx under sitecore\service\xdb?
This seems to be undocumented feature of Xdb.
I couldn't find any reference in the documentation when you should use this page.
Based on what's written in comment in App_Config\Sitecore\Marketing....
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Authenticating via RESTful API service
Try to add credentials to the request body:
Tip: You may switch to the Bulk Edit mode (on the right) and inject data as text:
domain:sitecore
userName:admin
password:b
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How to authenticate with SSC REST API using Item service auth
It’s a bit hard to know what’s going on without seeing your code and config and knowing your Sitecore version but some things to check are:
Login Cookies
Are you getting the login cookies from the ...
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How to get the link database using sitecore.services.client item service?
It is not possible to get any information from the Link Database using Sitecore Services Client (ItemService).
As the documentation states ( https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/93/sitecore-experience-...
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Is there an API for item creation?
You can use sitecore Sitecore Item Web API to create an item.
http://[host_name]/-/item/v1/sitecore/Content/Home?name=MyItem&template=Sample/Sample Item&sc_database=master
Also make sure you ...
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Sitecore Services Client 8.2 ODataController - 406 Not Acceptable error
A client (e.g. your browser) can indicate to the webserver the characteristics of the data it will accept back from the webserver. This is done using 'accept headers' of the following types:
Accept: ...
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How do I remove /sitecore from API calls?
As I see it, your options are:
Change the routing setup to remove the /sitecore part from the expected route information. Not knowing your code, this could have side effects and would need a thorough ...
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Sitecore Services Client EntityService Token Authentication InputStringError
TL;DR
The SigningTokenProvider is instantiated in the constructors of the Sitecore.Services.Infrastructure.Sitecore.Security.TokenDelegatingHandler (which you discovered and shared with me offline). ...
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How to create web service on Sitecore Paas
If your question is what is the best approach to allow external resources to interact with Sitecore, and not about how to create a web service:
I wouldn't re-invent the wheel. If you just need to ...
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Sitecore 7.2 Analytics DB records grown in size to 200 GB+
One option is to used Analytics Database Manager
You have to use Analytics Database Manager 2.1
This version works with: Sitecore CMS 6.5 - 7.2
These module it helps you to run next tasks :
...
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Sitecore GEOIP Issue with load balancer
For most load balancers it is indeed the following case sensitive setting:
<setting name="Analytics.ForwardedRequestHttpHeader" value="X-Forwarded-For" />
However, you may want to check with ...
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How to create web service on Sitecore Paas
You can still create web services using Azure Platform Services, including:
Azure Functions with HTTP Trigger will enable you to make external Web service calls and Functions can then make API calls ...
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Share Sitecore content to Native Mobile Apps (IOS swift and Android java)
To add more to Artsem's answer and to answer the additional questions that were not answered.
If we wanted to provide data (get/set operations on content tree,
analytics, personalization, ...
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