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C2S Packet 1: Authorization Attempt
Attempts authorization with the server.
There are two supported formats. One works roughly the same as the HTTP Authorization header, the other is considered legacy and is implementation defined.
Format
| Index | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | Authorization Attempt packet ID |
| 1 | string | Authentication scheme, e.g. Bearer. |
| 2 | string | Authorization arguments. |
The only difference between the Authorization header is that the scheme and arguments are separated by a \t instead of a space.
The legacy format would send index 1 and up to a private verification script. Only one public implementation of this was the one for phpBB, which substitutes index 1 for the current User ID and index 2 for the Session ID cookie value.
SharpChat falls back to the legacy implementation by checking whether index 1 is numeric, in which case it is assumed to be a user id.
Examples
A client authenticating using a Bearer token:
1\tBearer\tUiTfepl9rNY0dGMpDjehMu1FR7DqsXPbtd2kis8sHKGaHXNdK2B6iG6JrpARyOqU
A client authenticating using a Flashii Misuzu token:
1\tMisuzu\tAgOr1Q7cwN5hp7szVwoC-PapvsJWajdU3_sjNLdJqqx0D1b51AF1ATEBc0BndjJLd2pvU2hHdzN5SjNzUiTfepl9rNY0dGMpDjehMu1FR7DqsXPbtd2kis8sHKGaHXNdK2B6iG6JrpARyOqU
A client authenticating using the legacy phpBB format:
1\t2\tEvFvkZgLFoG1ZShMxpxILmS744usEjmH
See Also
- S2C Packet 1.y: Authorization Success - Informs the client that authorization succeeded and who they are.
- S2C Packet 1.n: Authorization Failure - Informs the client that authorization failed and why.