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emretezisci
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

"error_description": "missing required field \"grant_type\""

I am trying to get a sl access token with my refresh token but it gives this error. Any idea why?  Input:     { "body": { "grant_type": "", "refresh_token": "<token>" }, "contentType": "applicat...
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emretezisci
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Is there any other server-side authentication option that doesn't require "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"?

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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

emretezisci There isn't another endpoint for using a refresh token to get a new short-lived access token.

 

If your platform doesn't natively provide support for writing the data as "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", I suggest checking your platform's documentation to see how you can supply a string instead so you can build the parameters in your own code, and also override the "Content-Type" header with "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".

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