An application which accesses the RocketReviews.com Web Services needs an Application ID ("AppID").  An AppID is assigned to each RocketReviews.com user.

#AppID#

If you are a registered RocketReviews.com user and you are logged in, your AppID is displayed above.  If you are not logged in, please log in to see your AppID.

You only need to use the AppID if you are the developer of a program or script which accesses the web services.  If you are just the user of such an application, you do not need to use the AppID.

Each of the web services has a RequestAccess method.  The RequestAccess method accepts two arguments, the AppID and a UserID.  The UserID is either an empty string or the email address of a registered user of RocketReviews.com. 

  string RequestAccess(string AppID, string UserID)

An error is returned if the AppID is not valid, the email address is not blank and is not assigned to a registered RocketReviews.com user, or the specified user has blocked access for the AppID.

Otherwise, the RequestAccess method returns a temporary token which provides access to the "read-only" methods in the specific web service for the next 24 hours. If the UserID was assigned to a registered user (and the user has not blocked access), the token also allows access to the "update" methods (if any) of the web service.