Before you call an API operation of Photo and Drive Service (PDS), you must obtain information about PDS API calls, such as the endpoint, communication protocol, request method, request and response format, and encoding format.
Endpoints
The following table describes the endpoints of the PDS API.
domainID in the endpoint indicates the ID of the domain name and regionID in the endpoint indicates the region ID. Replace them with the actual values.
Network type | Endpoint for identity authentication | Endpoint for access to PDS | Endpoint for management of PDS |
Internet | {domainID}.api.aliyunpds.com | {domainID}.api.aliyunpds.com | {regionID}.admin.aliyunpds.com |
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | N/A | {domainID}.api-vpc.aliyunpds.com | {regionID}.admin-vpc.aliyunpds.com |
Communication protocols
You can call the PDS API operations by sending HTTP or HTTPS requests. We recommend that you use HTTPS to improve communication security.
Request method
You can use the POST method to send requests over HTTP. The request parameters must be included in the request body.
Request and response format
Requests and responses are in the Content-Type: application/json format.
Encoding format
Requests and responses are encoded in UTF-8.