Starts new session

POST

api/session

This request is used for starting a new session and getting its ID. You can provide this ID in the title (SID=) or URL (...api/session?sid=) of further requests made within this session. Such request is needed when the cookies are not kept and session ID is not provided in requests automatically. Another example: if you need to make requests to one database from different user accounts, you can start required number of new sessions by using requests of this type.

Content

Type name	Description
GUID

Request:

POST api/session
Accept: text/json
Accept-Encoding: deflate
Host: localhost:6496
Cookie: sid=bbba1fa1-563b-4707-80ce-8f6750718cc6

Response:

Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Encoding: 
Cache-Control: no-store
Content-Type: text/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:10:51 GMT
Set-Cookie: sid=f595a665-97a0-49c1-ac6b-e4515167b812; path=/;
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
 
"f595a665-97a0-49c1-ac6b-e4515167b812"