Upon a successful logon, Equifax provides a session token which needs to be used on the subsequent API calls. While the token is useful to the application developer, Equifax uses this to keep track of the API usage and managing the connections.

Session service has the following requests:

In this recipe, we will see the steps and code required to invoke an Equifax session service API. Ping is kept outside this recipe due to its simplicity, whereas, Change password is covered in a separate recipe, as it needs some more attention besides just changing the password.