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GET/api/users.ashx/users/username/{username} returning myself

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We're using NTLM authentication so I authenticate during the request rather than via the URL/headers.

Most of the functionality has eventually worked after some tweaking and figuring out of the schema however I'm having trouble getting the "GetUserByName" working.

GetUser works fine, but whatever I pass to GetUserByName I always get my account back :-p.

Our usernames include the domain name so "domain\username" and I'm not sure if this is causing the issue? I tried sending the '\' as %5C but that didn't make a difference.

I'm gonna see if I can get a test account set up on our domain so I can try authenticating with that and see if that comes back instead of my account (to prove it's returning the user that's authenticating).

And as I said, GetUser and GetUsers work fine.

This is version v3.5.4 (Build 2435) and I'm using PHP via REST.
light2
· 1 		light2
Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 11:32:41 AM
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Did a quick test via .NET and it's behaving similarily except falling over when I try to send 'domain\username'; passing just username doesn't get my result but does return myself as is happening via rest.
light2
· 1 		light2
Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 11:39:08 AM
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Created a test user account in gemini and tried getting the details of that - this time no error, but still returning my own user details not the one I'm passing in the function.
light2
· 1 		light2
Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 11:41:08 AM
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We are investigating and will let you know ASAP.
Mark Wing
· 9108 		Mark Wing
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 9:45:32 AM
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This is a bug: http://gemini.countersoft.com/Default.aspx?p=2&i=3333, which will be fixed for 3.6.
Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Mark Wing
· 9108 		Mark Wing
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 3:25:51 PM
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Is there anyway in the meantime until we upgrade to get the users list quickly?

I''m after the username and id, but using getUsers takes about a minute to return the result containing everything.
light2
· 1 		light2
Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:22:42 AM
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We have about 300 users and each has access to a bunch of projects so I think this is why the resulsts are taking so long, each user contains a list of projects and project details - lots and lots of repetitive information.
light2
· 1 		light2
Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:24:26 AM
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We know about this issue and have fixed it for 3.6. You can now get just the user entity which will make getusers run in less than 2 seconds.

What you can do is create another Forms authentication Gemini site to get the user by name.
Mark Wing
· 9108 		Mark Wing
Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:32:30 AM
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Nevermind; I've extracted the data I need and am just using that directly - the user list is pretty static :-p
light2
· 1 		light2
Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:33:34 AM
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Ah cool; Good good :-D
light2
· 1 		light2
Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:35:52 AM