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IanL
IanL

Reputation: 259

HTTParty GET to Fingercheck API gives 401

I am trying to use HTTParty in irb to test an API call, but I keep getting a 401. Attempts to do a get against the same URL with the same header info using the Postman Chrome add-on work fine -- any ideas?

irb> HTTParty.get("https://developer.fingercheck.com/api/v1/Employees/GetAllEmployees",
                  :headers => {"APIKEY" => "ABCD1234-1234-ABCD-EFGH-ABCD1234ABCD123",
                               "ClientSecretKey" => "ABCD1234-1234-ABCD-EFGH-ABCD1234ABCD123", 
                               "Content-Type" => "application/json"})

=> <HTTParty::Response:0x8 parsed_response=nil, @response=#<Net::HTTPUnauthorized 401 Unauthorized readbody=true>, 
     @headers={"cache-control"=>["no-cache"], "pragma"=>["no-cache"], 
     "expires"=>["-1"], "server"=>["Microsoft-IIS/7.5"], "x-aspnet-version"=>["4.0.30319"], 
     "x-powered-by"=>["ASP.NET"], "date"=>["Mon, 01 Dec 2014 21:04:32 GMT"], 
     "connection"=>["close"], "content-length"=>["0"]}>

I have also tried to do the get call with :query=>..., :query => {:header..., and :basic_auth =>..., but none change the results. Any ideas?

I know a fair number of HTTParty questions have been asked and answered, but I didn't see anything that spoke to this particular issue.

The documentation I know of for the API is at http://developer.fingercheck.com/api/help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 423

Answers (2)

Sean Huber
Sean Huber

Reputation: 3985

Add 'Accept' => 'application/json' to your request headers.

Upvotes: 0

IanL
IanL

Reputation: 259

The error turned out to be a problem with the API, not with the code -- our headers were being read as 'Apikey' and 'Clientsecretkey' and therefore failing some equality on their side. A fix was pushed to production by them, code now functional.

Upvotes: 1

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