Calling $.get after $.post while maintaining the session somehow - php

Question

I have an API which you can access through web url. You can sign in by POSTing your username/password to let's say
http://myapi.example/signin
I do that with a jQUERY's $.post request which works fine - I get the status OK back if everything is correct. Now I need to somehow GET data from this API with certain url, which I would do with $.get of course, but I get the reponse unauthorized… So probably the session somehow gets lost, after the POST request/response.
I know that this POST/GET works, because if I do signin and then just type the GET url in browser - i get the response text plain in browser.
How would you keep the "session" somehow to simulate browser's behaviour in this?
function ajaxSignIn(){
$.post(url,
{
email: document.getElementById("name").value,
password: document.getElementById("password").value
},
function(data,status){ // this is where POST is successful (i get data in)
console.log("\nStatus of POST: " + status);
console.log(data);
$.get(urlForGet,function(data,status){ // GET call
console.log("Status of GET: " + status);
});
});
}
If I was unclear please ask for more info.
Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

I think that your API does not work as it should or you are not using all the data it provides you. Usually this is how these APIs work:
You send login request.
Server replies with status code and if it is ok sends you a generated key which is valid for some period of time.
If you want to use the api further you need to supply this key with every new request.
Browsers use Cookies, APIs use this.

Answer 2

In case anyone is interested: I ended up sending ajax request to my local php server, where I managed to get a Cookie from the remote API with the use of cURL.
You create a cookie file and then use the cookie with further GET requests …
curl link to cookie explained
Server-side curl part without getting parameters etc etc.:
// here I come from my ajax
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $myvars);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookieJarFilePath); // this is what you need
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// i get data in response from the server
$response = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close($ch);
Here you can continue to use GET requests on the same page now with this cookie with the use of:
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookieJar); // other stuff is the same as before