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mr_muscle
mr_muscle

Reputation: 2900

CURL API token request with grant_type=password

I need to generate an API token for my app. The docs from the external service shows me below info:

This request uses normal post webforms.
<password> must be md5 encoded.

Endpoint: api/token
Request: "grant_type:   password
Password:   <password>
Username:   <USERNAME>
"

What I did was generate md5 encoded password in console:

> Digest::MD5.hexdigest("ZCW2OQo5yhfmTKutGjiCWQ==")
 => "53a89a22375a3665cfe4cb92ee17992b"

And put it into curl command like below:

curl -d "grant_type=password&password=53a89a22375a3665cfe4cb92ee17992b&username=my_user_name" -X POST https://enpoint/api/token

But instead of expected response I'm getting an error:

{"error":"invalid_grant"}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 399

Answers (1)

rewritten
rewritten

Reputation: 16435

It seems that your password is already encoded in some way - it's a base64 encoding of a binary string.

Try to put your actual password instead of this already encoded version as argument of hexdigest.

Upvotes: 1

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