My "key" authentication works fine for GET, but not POST

[Jonathan C]

I can't see any restrictions in the documentation about authentication methods working for GET but not for POST.

Specifically, if I GET the attendance using GET /:urlname/events/:id/attendance with the "key" parameter set to my API key, I get a valid response (all the attendance of the event).

But if I use POST to try to set an attendance using POST /:urlname/events/:id/attendance also with the "key" parameter set to my API key, it comes back with JSON body:

{"errors":[{"code":"authentication_error","message":"Authenticated member required"}]}

In both GET and POST I am testing just using "curl" on a Linux server, so the format of the underlying HTTP should be fine.

I am an Assistant Organizer in this group, and I can successfully take attendance, etc., through the web.

This is the first POST API that I have tried, but I have used GET APIs for several years without issues.

[Jonathan C]

It turns out the issue is somewhere in use of "curl" for POST of forms. After I went to pure Perl, using LWP::UserAgent, everything works fine.

[Doug Tangren]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Jonathan C <jmcro...@msn.com> wrote:

It turns out the issue is somewhere in use of "curl" for POST of forms. After I went to pure Perl, using LWP::UserAgent, everything works fine.

One common issue with using curl is using -F foo=bar instead of -d "foo=bar". -F sends a different content type than -d. For most API methods only the -d form is supported.

 

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[Jonathan C]

Interesting, because the API help pages all use "-F" in the curl examples.