public void Authenticate()
{
//determine protocol from the auth server
String PROTOCOL = AuthServer.StartsWith("http://") ? "http://" : "https://";
String url = AuthServer + "/SensorCloud/devices/" + DeviceId + "/authenticate/";
var request = _requests.url(url)
.Param("version", "1")
.Param("key", DeviceKey)
.Accept("application/xdr")
.Get();
// check the response code for success
if (request.ResponseCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
throw new AuthenticationException(request.Text);
}
// Extract the authentication token and server from the response
var ms = new MemoryStream(request.Raw);
var xdr = new XdrReader(ms);
AuthToken = xdr.ReadString(1000); //a token is generally about 60 chars. Limit the read to at most 1000 chars as a precation so in their is a protocol error we don't try to allocate lots of memory
ApiServer = PROTOCOL + xdr.ReadString(255); //max length for a FQDN is 255 chars
}
