Login Method

This method is used to gain access to the AnywhereDirect Web Service. No other operations can be performed without calling this method first. If successful it provides a Reference that must be used in all other methods.

Arguments

1. string Account
2. string Name
3. string Password
   This can either be provided as plain text or encoded as an MD5 Hash for security

Response

1. DataSet ResponseDataSet

ResponseDataSet will contain a Status DataTable with a single row and the following columns:

• Code
  0 for success or any other value for failure
• Text
  Descriptive status text
• Reference
  Used in all operations apart from Login to identify the user of the Web Service

Example

The following Web Service call:

Login("Acme", "Bob", "abc1")

could produce a DataSet with the following Status DataTable:

Code	Text	Reference
0	OK	18,23

or:

Code	Text	Reference
8	Invalid credentials