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Could just set the callback URL to localhost whatever the path is.

Auth should work the same as CREST, so would just make an HTTP request using auth: bearer THE_TOKEN

As such you need SSO to get the token so cant do requests without it.


Below is an example using the open show info window.

POST /characters/2047918291/ui/openwindow/ownerdetails/ HTTP/1.1
Host: crest-tq.eveonline.com
Authorization: Bearer HJgxdS4u_sH9EqOWvi4zGuJjebpqRwl25jUbc9paFh1CBFHnMOSuz3u8L-4QnVX_7tJRhZCmXMoCpllzHR7BYQ2
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 9f98c470-f74d-02ce-bbe2-aff57ff9c813

{
"allianceID": 99002938
}

That is just a general HTTP request code from postman, i can link you a specific language if you want.

Scope list is in the dev website where you set your callback url, the ones with the _ between works are ESI endpoints i think, camelcase is crest.

HTTP requests are simple, its the ones that need authentication are a bit more in depth. However once you get the SSO setup and have a token and are able to refresh it its a bit easier than the XML api as can use the same token for every endpoint.

Thanks for the links. I will probably look into postman, I am struggling a bit with the HTTP. Currently trying to make a POST request with jQuery $.post() to validate the authorization code. Oh also someone pointed there is a new API: ESI API. So I will avoid the RESTful API.

Any idea how to do this http request in jQuery?:

POST https://login.eveonline.com/oauth/token HTTP/1.1

Authorization: Basic bG9...ZXQ=
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Host: login.eveonline.com

grant_type=authorization_code&code=gEyuYF_rf...ofM0

After 10 hours this is as far as I got. Besides the first http line I don't get what is happening anymore.

$.post("https://login.eveonline.com/oauth/token",{
    //pass info to post to server here    
});

Yes, I was supposed to write http there: notice that I used http later. My hands kind of typed html automatically, so I'll correct that in my earlier post.

Languages I am familiar with are: html, css, javascript, jQuery and php to a minor degree.

Currently I am not using any serverside language at all in the project. Not even a CMS, since it'll be a single page application for the most part and a CMS would limit me more than offer new options.

I figured the clientside has all the information I need. Atm I am not trying to add functionality that isn't already provided by the ESI API. I am using jQuery, because I am already familiar with the syntax. I am aware that jQuery is actually using ajax here. That said I am not familiar with ajax, but I know it is used to "talk" between servers.

The main issue here is that I am not able to understand the http-request fully:

• The first line sets the server I am communicating with.
• Line 3-5: are those ajax headers I am supposed to send to the eve server to get a reply? Are those values something I need to generate beforehand or are they always the same?
• Line 7: Is a mystery to me.

I sort of figured Blacksmoke16's example out. Most of those values are already preset in the jQuery .post() function. The only thing I don't understand there is the postman token. But Blacksmoke16's example is an example on how to request regular data. Which isn't what I am trying to do, because I need to get the authorisation code from the SSO first. I am currently at the phase where I sent the user to EVE's website to log in and he got back to my site with the verification code. Now I extract that code from the url and am supposed to do submit it back to EVE to get a "real" authorisation code I can use.

So, lots of questions here. I might split this one up as a new question. I was initially hoping this would be as easy as how it works with the XML API (just send the eve server an url with some extra info in it). But alas I don't seem to be this lucky.