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think-about-it
New Contributor
8 years ago

SoapUI 5.4.0 Client Credentials Grant - Get Access Token failure

I'm trying to use SoapUI 5.4.0 "Get Token" functionality to get the access token for Client Credenttials OAuth2. It fails with the error "Could not retrieve access token ...".   I'm running an Ora...
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JHunt
Community Hero
8 years ago

Some clients will request without authentication details. The idea is that the server will respond with a HTTP 401 response that includes a list of supported authentication types. Only once it is known what types will be accepted, the request is made again with the authentication details for the preferred authentication type.

 

In SoapUI, there is an option for 'Authenticate Preemptively' to send the chosen authentication type on the first attempt. This is on each request, or globally in Preferences > HTTP Settings.