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Sparsh C.'s avatar
Sparsh C.
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10 years ago

401 unauthorized error

Hello Team, We are getting 401 unauthorized error when we are accessing the folders/files with the name includes '(' or ')'. We are accessing the API method with web request. Please suggest...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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10 years ago

Please do share your code. But I would strongly suggest switching to either PLAINTEXT signing or OAuth 2. HMAC signing is difficult to get right, and the issue likely relates to URL encoding.

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