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API / Webservice for external applications? · **Released**: 06-24-2010

Hi guys,

we will start using PT in a few days for our software project. It comes to the right time - now we don?t have to use Redmine

But I wonder if you see a chance to establish any kind of webservice or API to add issues from an external application.

Let me explain with an example ...
We develope a Delphi (Win32) application. And it would be great if we could add a formular to our software where the user fills out some stuff like Issuname, Text, ... and send it to our PT.
I know we could implement an instance of Internet Explorer directly in our application and open the Issue creation page directly from PT, but I think it would be nice to have the ability to add issues in a direct way.

What do you think about this?

Greetz
Dominik

daFish · #12 07-01-2010, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Ryan Ashbrook

One thing to remember, also, is we need to deal with how vBulletin handles such requests, as well. vBulletin denies all POST requests that do not originate from the original domain, unless they are whitelisted within the ACP.

This may or may not pose a problem, I don't know for sure yet, never actually tried implementing such a thing within a vBulletin Modification.

Yeah, I totally forgot about that.
Maybe it could work that way: A user requests access to the webservice by filling out a small form including the domain where the requests come from. If the request is approved the domain gets added to the whitelist.
But this would not work if you use an external application.

Ryan Ashbrook · #13 07-01-2010, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daFish

Yeah, I totally forgot about that.
Maybe it could work that way: A user requests access to the webservice by filling out a small form including the domain where the requests come from. If the request is approved the domain gets added to the whitelist.
But this would not work if you use an external application.

Exactly.

Unless IP Addresses can also be specified within the Domain Whitelist, the API will be useless for what he is looking to do.

And even then, if you want to make the API globally available to all users, it's not exactly feasible to add every users IP Address to the whitelist.

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