These messages are provided in FIX to allow the passing of individual user information between two counterparties. The messages allow for the following function
1Individual User Logon
2Individual User Status Enquiries
3Individual User Logout
4Individual User password change
NOTE: While it is not encouraged to transmit passwords in a FIX conversation unless you can guarantee the end to end security of both the FIX conversation and any intermediate routing hubs that are involved in the routing.
User Request Message
This message is used to initiate a user action, logon, logout or password change. It can also be used to request a report on a users status.
User Request
| Tag | Field Name | FIXML | Req'd | Comments | |||
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| <Standard Message Header> | Y | MsgType = BE | |||||
| 923 | UserRequestID | @UserReqID | Y | Can be used to hand structures etc to other APIs etc | |||
| 924 | UserRequestType | @UserReqTyp | Y |
Indicates the action required by a User Request Message |
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| 553 | Username | @Username | Y |
Userid or username. |
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| 554 | Password | @Password | N |
Password or passphrase. |
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| 925 | NewPassword | @NewPassword | N |
New Password or passphrase |
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| 1400 | EncryptedPasswordMethod | @EncPwdMethod | N |
Enumeration defining the encryption method used to encrypt password fields. At this time there are no encryption methods defined by FPL. |
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| 1401 | EncryptedPasswordLen | @EncPwdLen | C |
Length of the EncryptedPassword(1402) field |
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| 1402 | EncryptedPassword | @EncPwd | C |
Encrypted password - encrypted via the method specified in the field EncryptedPasswordMethod(1400) |
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| 1403 | EncryptedNewPasswordLen | @EncNewPwdLen | C |
Length of the EncryptedNewPassword(1404) field |
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| 1404 | EncryptedNewPassword | @EncNewPwd | C |
Encrypted new password - encrypted via the method specified in the field EncryptedPasswordMethod(1400) |
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| 95 | RawDataLength | @RawDataLength | C |
Number of bytes in raw data field. |
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| 96 | RawData | @RawData | C |
Can be used to hand structures etc to other API's etc |
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| <Standard Message Trailer> | Y | ||||||
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