REST API login not working on DSpace version 7.4 after upgrade from DSpace 6.2

[Lewatle Johannes Phaladi]

Hi DSpace Team,

I have done numerous test using postman to connect to DSpace 7.4 without luck, when sending request checking status it succeed but when logging in it fails, please see the following screenshots, the first one is the error on our API page and the second one is seccess results from Dspace demo site that I would like to receive, please guide on what to do to solve this problem :

Regards,

Lewatle 

[Lewatle Johannes Phaladi]

Please see attachment 

[Tim Donohue]

Hi,

That first screenshot shows the error message as :
"405 Only POST is allowed for login requests"

That means that you are calling that "/login" method incorrectly and need to use POST.  Here's the docs on that endpoint which has some examples:

https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract/blob/main/authentication.md

Tim