Managing Secret Keys

Operator: <secret_key>

XML Schema: secret_key_input.xsd, secret_key_output.xsd

Plesk version: Plesk 7.5.6 for Windows, Plesk 8.0 and later for Linux

XML API version: 1.4.0.0 and higher

Plesk user: Plesk Administrator

Description

Plesk Administrator can access Plesk XML API service using a secret key - alternative way of authentication. Instead of putting the credentials, Plesk Administrator can specify a secret key as the KEY HTTP header of request packets. The header can look as follows:

KEY: 6575fae36288be6d1bad40b99808e37f

Note: To create a secret key, you should specify the IP address this secret key will be linked to. Packets sent with this key from different IP's will not be proceeded by Plesk XML API service.

Supported operations

• CREATE creates a secret key
• GET_INFO retrieves a secret key
• DELETE removes a secret key