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Add caveat for webapi admin session authentication bug #7393
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Purpose of this pull request
This PR adds an important caveat to the docs relating to session-based authentication for webapi endpoints, for logged-in admins.
Please refer to these two outstanding issues:
As you can see from the discussion here, this is a long-standing problem dating back to 2.1.x. Clearly, the docs outline how it should work, but seeing as it definitely does not, it's helpful to provide a note here to alert developers. Arguably there should be a more extensive rewrite with admin access moved to a 'pending functionality' section but that's beyond the remit of this contribution!
With any luck the fix is picked up soon and access works as expected.
Affected DevDocs pages