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Example Lets say you wanted to create a hash for the following API request: https://cloud.6connect.com/6c_375/api/v1/api.php?target=ipam&action=get&type=IP&mask=24 And that your API Key and Secret Key are as follows: API Key: 32-5DAYTJQY2TZHOFOB Secret Key: 48b278ec873bda4738923dbc467f8669 The first step is to append your API Key to the URL. The API Key indicates which user is executing the API query. The first next step is to isolate the Query String from the request URL. The Query String is everything which follows the question mark. So, Query String: target=ipam&action=get&type=IP&mask=24&apiKey=32-5DAYTJQY2TZHOFOB The next step is to calculate the SHA256 hash of this string with your Secret Key. In PHP, this would be: $sha256 = hash_hmac('sha256', "target=ipam&action=get&type=IP&mask=24&apiKey=32-5DAYTJQY2TZHOFOB", "48b278ec873bda4738923dbc467f8669", TRUE); As this value has been 256-bit hashed, it will contain many unprintable characters. The solution to this is to encode it in base 64 for transport. Again, in PHP: $hash = base64_encode($sha256); Calculating it out yields the completed hash: $hash = yneSFMyxPPe+3W4IOkVp50K3VStatBcRRak+2ygDUWQ= The calculated hash can then be appended to the full API Query URL to form a completed request: |
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