Registering and testing web scripts

1. In your browser, enter: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/index
2. If prompted, log in with the user name admin and password admin.

The Web Script Framework find all web scripts and registers them with SkyVault. When there is a problem registering a web script, the index provides a list of web scripts that failed registration along with the reason for the failure.

1. In your browser, enter: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/dir/Company%20Home
2. If you see the contents of the Company Home folder listed, your web script is working.

1. In your browser, enter: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/dir/Company%20Home?verbose=true
2. If you see the contents of the Company Home folder listed in verbose form, your web script is working.

1. In your browser, enter: http://localhost:8080/alfresco/service/dir/doesnotexist
2. If you see an error page detailing a 404 status response, your web script is working.

When testing status response codes, it is useful to test with the cURL client to access to the status code sent on the HTTP response. For example, to repeat the 'folder does not exist' test with cURL, type the following in your command line:

The returned response is similar to the following where the 404 status code is explicitly logged:

* About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
*   Trying ::1... connected
* Connected to localhost (::1) port 8080 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'admin'
> GET /alfresco/service/dir/doesnotexist HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=
> Host: localhost:8080
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Cache-Control: no-cache
< Pragma: no-cache
< Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8
< Content-Length: 1487
< Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:28:28 GMT