Start a passwordless passkey sign-in
const url = 'https://api.aetherpush.com/v1/auth/passkey/challenge';const options = {method: 'POST'};
try { const response = await fetch(url, options); const data = await response.json(); console.log(data);} catch (error) { console.error(error);}curl --request POST \ --url https://api.aetherpush.com/v1/auth/passkey/challengeIssues WebAuthn authentication options with no credential list, for discoverable credentials. No account is named; the assertion identifies it. User verification is required, so the passkey alone counts as multi-factor. Rate limited per client address.
Responses
Section titled “Responses”WebAuthn authentication options to pass to the browser.
object
WebAuthn PublicKeyCredentialRequestOptionsJSON, as produced by
SimpleWebAuthn’s generateAuthenticationOptions(). Pass it to
startAuthentication() from @simplewebauthn/browser.
object
Example generated
{ "options": {}}Too many attempts.
Standard error envelope. code is the stable machine identifier for
client branching and i18n. The wording of error is a human-readable
fallback and is not part of the contract. Specialized responses keep
narrower code enums where clients already branch on them.
object
Human-readable error message.
Stable machine code. Prefer this over matching on error. The
values this API can answer with are listed in the ApiErrorCode
schema of the raw document at
https://api.aetherpush.com/openapi.yaml. The field stays an
open string here so that a release adding a value does not
invalidate this response.
Unique identifier for the request, also exposed as the X-Request-Id response header.
Example
{ "error": "The requested resource was not found.", "code": "not_found", "requestId": "req_abc123"}Passkeys are not configured on this server.
Standard error envelope. code is the stable machine identifier for
client branching and i18n. The wording of error is a human-readable
fallback and is not part of the contract. Specialized responses keep
narrower code enums where clients already branch on them.
object
Human-readable error message.
Stable machine code. Prefer this over matching on error. The
values this API can answer with are listed in the ApiErrorCode
schema of the raw document at
https://api.aetherpush.com/openapi.yaml. The field stays an
open string here so that a release adding a value does not
invalidate this response.
Unique identifier for the request, also exposed as the X-Request-Id response header.
Example
{ "error": "The requested resource was not found.", "code": "not_found", "requestId": "req_abc123"}