Curl request works: URL says not authenticated

[mar...@bluerocket.us]

Hello there, 

I am attempting to request some data from the Assembla API programmatically.

When I run the following CURL command, I am able to have the correct data returned to me in the terminal.

curl -H "X-Api-Key: my_key" -H "X-Api-Secret: my_secret" https://api.assembla.com/v1/user/mentions.json

However, when I try to hit that same endpoint from my backend using the URL below, I get <response is: {"error"=>"invalid_auth", "error_description"=>"Please provide authentication data (API key/secret pair or a valid access token)"}>

https://my_key: my_secret@api.assembla.com/v1/user/mentions.json

Am I missing something?  I believe I am following the syntax in the assembla api docs.  

Thanks, 

Marcel 

[Stanislav Kolotinskiy]

Hi Marcel,

you can’t pass credentials via Basic auth - the only way to use API key/secret is via headers. So basically you can’t perform API requests using a plain browser. Hope this makes things clearer.

Regards,

Stanislav

 

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[mar...@bluerocket.us]

Update:

This is a RoR project and I am using Postman for my HTTP requests.  I tried using key/secret syntax below (a variation of this SO post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7627419/how-to-use-basic-authentication-with-httparty-in-a-rails-app ), and I am getting the same error: {"error"=>"invalid_auth", "error_description"=>"Please provide authentication data (API key/secret pair or a valid access token)"}

auth = {'X-Api-Key': '_my_key', 

      'X-Api-Secret': '_my_secret'}

 

response = HTTParty.get('https://api.assembla.com/v1/user/mentions.json', :basic_auth => auth )

[mar...@bluerocket.us]

Hey Stanislav, 

Thanks for your response.  I solved the issue by passing the auth credentials in the header by using the following syntax.  

headers = { 'X-Api-Key': '_my_key', 

'X-Api-Secret': '_my_secret'}

response = HTTParty.get(

'https://api.assembla.com/v1/user/mentions.json', 

:headers => headers

)

Thanks for your help! 

Cheers, 

Marcel

On Friday, April 28, 2017 at 11:48:44 AM UTC-7, Stanislav Kolotinskiy wrote:

Hi Marcel,

you can’t pass credentials via Basic auth - the only way to use API key/secret is via headers. So basically you can’t perform API requests using a plain browser. Hope this makes things clearer.

Regards,

Stanislav

On Apr 28, 2017, at 21:06, mar...@bluerocket.us wrote:

Hello there, 

I am attempting to request some data from the Assembla API programmatically.

When I run the following CURL command, I am able to have the correct data returned to me in the terminal.

curl -H "X-Api-Key: my_key" -H "X-Api-Secret: my_secret" https://api.assembla.com/v1/user/mentions.json

However, when I try to hit that same endpoint from my backend using the URL below, I get <response is: {"error"=>"invalid_auth", "error_description"=>"Please provide authentication data (API key/secret pair or a valid access token)"}>

https://my_key: my_secret...@api.assembla.com/v1/user/mentions.json

Am I missing something?  I believe I am following the syntax in the assembla api docs.  

Thanks, 

Marcel 

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[Stanislav Kolotinskiy]

Yep, exactly, glad to know that it worked. Have a nice day!

Regards,

Stanislav

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