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Today a colleague asked me to take a look at an issue they were experiencing interacting with the Zoom API (I’ll write about that another day), but in the conversation they asked if I knew if it were possible to create the JSON Web Token (JWT, pronounced jot) used by the API in native FileMaker. […]

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We received an email this morning asking for some assistance with cURL for FileMaker. Paraphrased they were asking I am trying to get the results of a webpage using INSERT FROM URL into a text field, but the web developer has set the site to require a username / password via basic http authentication. They […]

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Director Steve Winter presented his session title ‘Explore cURL for FileMaker’ at the Scandanavia FileMaker Developer Conference in Helsingør, Denmark. Summary FileMaker’s robust functionality can be supplemented with a Web Service (or API) to help solve pretty much any task. But sometimes accessing those APIs through http(s) doesn’t provide the flexibility needed. One example of […]

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Steve Winter from Matatiro Solutions will be presenting the session “Explore cURL for FileMaker” at the upcoming FileMaker Developer Conference to be held in Phoenix from the 24th to the 27th of July. Session Description FileMaker’s robust functionality can be supplemented with a Web Service (or API) to help solve pretty much any task. But […]

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Sometimes when using external APIs it’s necessary to store returned cookies, for example if a cookie is being used for authentication. There are two sides to this coin, saving the cookie, and then sending it again on subsequent requests. cURL offers options for this, –cookie-jar (or -c) to save cookies, and –cookie (or -b) to […]

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Steve Winter from Matatiro Solutions presented a session at the 2014 FileMaker Developer conference in San Antonio on the integration of web services into a FileMaker solution. The resource materials from that session are available here for download. WEB005 slides WEB005 demo materials

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