Adept Distributor Auth?

Question

Hi,
I'm developing a .net solution to send and store files to ACS4 and using the Upload Test program as a starting point I'm getting the following error back - if anybody has any idea how to resolve this I'd be very grateful...
The error is:
E_ADEPT_DISTRIBUTOR_AUTH
with this extra bit in the XML too?
urn:uuid:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001
I'm not sure whether this is something to do with the way I've encrypted the HMAC key or not based on the password that is supposed to be sent to the server?
Many thanks,
James

Answer 1

James
That means that means the HMAC doesn't match the message you sent. This can be because:
1.) You used the wrong key (should be the password for the built in distributor)
2.) You didn't do the hashing correctly
To rule out number 1, ensure that you can use UploadTest.jar successfully with that password.
For number 2, you are going to need to carefully look at the serialization of the XML for signature as implemented by the upload test. Unfortunately this was left out of the Tech Ref.
Alternatively if your Packaging service is behind a firewall, you can ignore the HMAC/message signature altogether by adding the following line to your packaging configuration file:
com.adobe.adept.persist.skipAuthentication=true
Jim Lester
Adobe Systems