sense-using-jwt

Authentication: Qlik Sense JSON Web Token (JWT)

This example will show you how to connect to a Qlik Sense Enterprise server using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for authentication. This is useful when creating services in a Node.js environment that runs outside of the Qlik Sense Enterprise deployment.

Please note that JWTs are signed using a private key. Failure to keep this key secret will lead to a serious security breach as JWTs can be used to impersonate anyone in your Qlik Sense Enterprise deployment.

Prerequisites

To run this example, you need to ...

• ... use Qlik Sense Enterprise version June 2017 or later
• ... generate a private/public key pair for JWT signing and verification:
  • openssl genrsa -out private.key 1024
  • openssl req -new -x509 -key private.key -out public.key
• ... setup a virtual proxy that uses JWT authentication

Once these prerequisites are fulfilled, modify the code to match your environment (highlighted with comments in the example code).

Runnable code

• JWT

Documentation

• Qlik Sense Help: JWT authentication
• Qlik Sense Help: Creating a virtual proxy
• JSON Web Token

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