Note. You maybe want to just try the API from the usual web-browser (like Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc.). In this case you may just go to the login page , fill in the login form and submit to authenticate. After successful authentication your sessionid will be stored in the browser, and you may use the address bar (or any REST-client, for example Postman REST Client for Chrome ) to query the API.
In general, for authenticatation, please use the following request:
Request: POST /account/authenticate/ POST parameters: * username - user account name * password - user password
A successful response will contain a cookie called sessionid. Use this cookie within every request to work with the API.
To reset the session, send the GET request to the
Request: GET /account/logout/
Previously acquired cookie will no longer work.