Secured Services information at REST end

Question

How to determine if  any gis service is secured or unsecured at the REST end point. I want to hit the arcgis server REST using Python and find if services are secured or not.

JaiSiva1 · Answer

Hi Shikhar,

Case 1:

If the services that you are accessing are known to you , you will probably know the services that are published.

So , you can query them using urllib/ urllib2 like :

import urllib2
url = "http://YourUrl/rest/services/sample/MapServer/0/query?where=1%3D1&f=pjson"
data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
print data

If you are getting results , then it is not secured.

If you are getting result as  '{
 "error": {
  "code": 499,
  "message": "Token Required",
  "details": []
 }
}' , or any such error , then it is secured.

Case 2:

If the services that you are accessing is not known to you and you can do a simple analysis using the following URL: http://YourURL/rest/services/?f=pjson

and conclude if the services are secure or not secure.