Documentation: Logging in

[gregpalaci]

Would be great to show an example of logging a user in from the public site. I see the admin section has a full fledged angular application and 1000's of lines of code to do this. It's still not clear the mechanism to create a session.

Is it simply a POST to /login with a response that should be added as cookie?

[pierreburgy]

What do you mean by public site?

Here is the documentation for user authentication: http://strapi.io/documentation/users

[gregpalaci]

Using POST /auth/local/register I get back the newly created user and jwt.
Using POST /auth/local/login with the same users filled in credentials:

{
  "identifier": "contact@company.com",
  "password": "123456"
}

I get back a 400:
http://localhost:1337/auth/local/login Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 (Bad Request)

[gregpalaci]

By public site I mean, not the admin section.. The project root index.html.

Script:

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: '/auth/local/register',
  data: {
    username: "bobbybrown123",
    email: "bobbybrown123@gmail.com",
    password: "bobbybrown123"
  },
  success: function(response) {
    console.log(response) // works returns user
  }
});

// executed after user is created, 400 response

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: '/auth/local/login',
  data: {
    identifier: "bobbybrown123@gmail.com",
    password: "bobbybrown123"
  },
  success: function(response) {
    console.log(response)
  }
});

[gregpalaci]

Ok I've figured it out. The documentation http://strapi.io/documentation/users#local-login says /auth/local/login but when I viewed the network request of logging in from admin it is actually /auth/local
Maybe it's an error in the documentation?

[pierreburgy]

Good catch, @sylvainlap just made a pull request to update the documentation : strapi/strapi-docs#2
Thanks @gregbenner @sylvainlap