API V2 authorization "invalid_client" error
Hi, I'm trying to do v2 authorization (from Java), and getting an invalid client error.
My setup reads (edited for brevity):
HttpPost post = new HttpPost(AUTH_URL+"/auth/token");
post.addHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
post.addHeader("Authentication","Basic "+Base64.encodeBase64String("APIKEY:"+API_KEY));
List <NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList <NameValuePair>();
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("granttype", "clientcredentials"));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("scope", "account"));
post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps));This seems a perfect mirror of the php and c# samples, but in return, I'm getting the remarkably useful:{"error":"invalidclient","errordescription":null,"error_uri":null} Any ideas?Thanks,GeePawHill
GeePawHill
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The problem was caused by invalid header name.
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Steve
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Ah, I just figured out he was using "Authentication" instead of "Authorization". I'm getting the same error but I'm already using "Authorization".
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Steve
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It would be helpful to know *which* header name was invalid, and what the right name was..
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Whiterose1
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Agreed: the login button gadget does not have an option to remove this (if it has I can't see it), and the form itself (on the Authorization Required system page) also has no such option.
Adding features like this is good: but enabling them by default is not good.
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GeePawHill
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Here's the current state of play.
1) My original problem was trivial. I'm sure a WA developer would have spotted it instantly: used the wrong header Authentication vs. Authorization.
2) Debugging that problem was a bear. I finally wound up using Fiddler to compare the two requests, which itself took several hours of coercing java to use a proxy w/o a security certificate.
3) I'll announce elsewhere, too, but there's now a project on GitHub called WildApricotApiV2 which contains the in-progress code.
Thanks to the couple of folks who checked with me offline about this, and I hope the new project will help someone else!
GeePawHill
