Demystifying iControl REST Part 6: Token-Based Authentication

iControl REST. It’s iControl SOAP’s baby, brother, introduced back in TMOS version 11.4 as an early access feature but released fully in version 11.5. Several articles on basic usage have been writ...
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May 26, 2016
Is it possible to execute a simple curl command to get the token ? Something like this: curl -k -u admin:admin -X POST https://10.x.x.x/mgmt/shared/authn/login -H "Content-type: application/json"