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Reputation: 1574

REST unauthorized error meaning

I am asking maybe an open question about REST authentication practice. We use OpenID to authenticate with REST API. However there are some API where we do POST with body that also contain a secret (to support certain business rules). Now, if that secret is wrong am I still fine to return a 401 error? Does REST prescribe (like HTTP does) where token, password, secret should go in a REST call (e.g. always in HTTP Authorization header...)?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 723

Answers (1)

Saurabh Mistry
Saurabh Mistry

Reputation: 13669

The 401 Unauthorized error is an HTTP status code that means the page you were trying to access cannot be loaded until you first log in with a valid user ID and password. If you have just logged in and received the 401 Unauthorized error, it means that the credentials you entered were invalid for some reason.

Upvotes: 1

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