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njclonch
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Access token is not being accepted from local server

After successfully receiving an access token from the `oauth2/authorize` endpoint, I have attempted to submit the access token to `sharing/get_shared_link_metadata` along with the URL of a shared lin...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
I'm not sure I follow. Were you able to inspect the actual API requests like I suggested?
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njclonch
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Sorry. I took the time to inspect the final request, which contains the access token in the request header. When I isolated the issue to the function, which contains the curl post/request, it came back with a successful response. So, to my embarrassment, there was actually just an issue somewhere else. I got really bogged down in this problem a couple days ago, and I think I just needed to step away from it.

 

Thanks for the persistent help.

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