Client Activation¶

Interface¶

URL	`http://127.0.0.1:24727/eID-Client`
Description	The interface can be used to start the eID application. The parameters ifdName, contextHandle, and slotHandle address a particular eCard. If the parameters are absent, the eID application should ask the user to select an eCard if multiple cards are present.
Method	GET
Query	tcTokenURL	The URL determines where the client can retrieve the TC Token. See TR-03112-7, section 3.2	Mandatory
	ifdName	The ifdName determines the card terminal.	Optional; Not specified yet
	contextHandle	The contextHandle addresses a specific IFD.	Optional; Not specified yet
	slotHandle	The SlotHandle determines a connected eCard. See TR-03112-6, section 3.2.1.	Optional; Not specified yet
Returns	200 OK	The refresh address is comprised in the Message Body (Hack for Mac OS Safari).
	303 See Other	The Location field in the response should contain the refresh address.
	400 Bad Request	Malformed GET request, e.g. parameters are missing.
	500 Internal Server Error	Other errors.
Content-Types	text/plain	All content should be encoded in text/plain or text/html.
	text/html
Notes

TODO
* What happens if the Client Activator cannot start an application?
* What happens if the Client Activator cannot fetch a TC Token from the given TCTokenURL? Should that result in a 400 or 404?

URL	`http://127.0.0.1:24727/status`
Description
Method	GET
Query
Returns	200 OK
	400 Bad Request
	406 Not Acceptable
	500 Internal Server Error
Content-Types	text/html	Should be used for a HTML website with human readable content.
	application/xml	Should be used to represent a ConnectionHandle in a machine readable XML format.
	application/json	Same as XML but the data should encoded in a JSON format.