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avkour13
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4 years ago
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"Wrong authentication credentials." error message due to an incorrect scheme of generating authToken

Error received: {"errors": [{ "status": 401, "code": 701, "title": "Wrong authentication credentials.", "source": {"pointer": "uri"} }]}   I am trying to invoke a REST Web service, and belo...
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    richie
    4 years ago
    Hey avkour13

    Id double check your requirements or speak to dev about the correct authentication scheme you need to use. Considering the error response indicates auth failure this is most likely a problem even if you are sending a userid as a URI/Template parameter cos i'd be surprised if anything relating to authentication was passed in a URI as the details could be sniffed (so totally not secure)

    Nice one,

    Rich
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richie
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Hey avkour13

Id double check your requirements or speak to dev about the correct authentication scheme you need to use. Considering the error response indicates auth failure this is most likely a problem even if you are sending a userid as a URI/Template parameter cos i'd be surprised if anything relating to authentication was passed in a URI as the details could be sniffed (so totally not secure)

Nice one,

Rich
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avkour13
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4 years ago

Thanks Richie. Yes, my scheme for generating authToken was incorrect.

 

I'll have to write a groovy script to create the correct authToken.