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David S.309
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
Getting HTTP 401 on for access_token one some server
Hi guys,
We came across a strange issue, when trying to get a access token the the OAuth1 API, the successive calls to "request_token" and "authorize" are working fine, but its is time to access "h...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
10 years agoA few things to note:
- Are those all of the response headers? E.g., is there a X-Dropbox-Request-Id header?
- What's the response body?
- The response server headers contain unexpected values. E.g., the server header says "Apache-Coyote/1.1", but "nginx" is expected. Is it possible something is interfering with your connection?
- You're using HMAC-SHA1 signing, which can be hard to implement and debug. We highly recommend using PLAINTEXT instead. This blog post may be helpful.
- You're supplying a oauth_token_secret parameter, which isn't expected.
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