I am new to geotab and am using some of the javascript examples.  One that matches my need, leveraages login.js, supplied in the SDK.  I try to hard code my authentication, as an example, just to play around, and I still get the popup window for login.  If I comment out the popup window, authentication doesn't work.  Looking for best practices for how to authenticate.

Help with MyGeotab SDK Authentication

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Tucker. I am building a webpage to track a device, going back 10 locations, to build a "tail" so people know which direction it is heading. I am using Javascript and Leaflet for the mapping, that is all working fine. My issue is getting the data from geotab without exposing credentials and database. If I hard-code it in the Javascript, anyone can just view-source and see the credentials. Is this something add-in can help with? This webpage will just be in a squarespace domain and users accessing the webpage have no knowledge of geotab or have any login details to it. Does this make sense?

I added this code and it worked! Great. But now my credentials are exposed bu sinply viewing the source of the webpage, so I need a different solution. Any thoughts?

Additional, I have been able to use curl to get a response, but I pass in a sessionid.

What I need to know is what is the best way to pass in login details. then what do I do with the result?  Sessionid or something different.

The goal is to show on a map where some devices are located, using either google maps or open street maps.  This is for customer consumption, hence they will not have accounts.

Any help appreciated.

Mike

Tucker:

This is the example I am using as it closest mimics what I need to do.
https://github.com/Geotab/sdk/blob/master/src/software/js-samples/getLocation.html

Enter a serial number and you get prompted to login.  I modified the js/
login.gs to no avail.

Assuming I have the Serial Number, I just want to execute something like
this.
{
api.call("Get", {
typeName: "Device",
search: {
serialNumber: deviceSerial
}
}, function (result) {
if (result.length &gt; 0) {
showDeviceLocation(result[0]);
} else {
alert("Could not find a device for that
serial number");
}
}, function (error) {
alert(error);
});
}

Thanks

Mike

I am new to geotab and am using some of the javascript examples. One that matches my need, leveraages login.js, supplied in the SDK. I try to hard code my authentication, as an example, just to play around, and I still get the popup window for login. If I comment out the popup window, authentication doesn't work. Looking for best practices for how to authenticate.

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