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irach15
Maven
5 years ago

cUrl call to get data

hey, sorry for simple questions to all API gurus 😉 I just started using cUrl for getting API data, somehow after working years as Admin and Dev never has been needed... Being said, I want to unde...
irach15's avatar
irach15
Maven

CarolineS 

tried

- non-SSO user created

- signed on to Postman

- run Post request with user name & psw

- no luck

<response status="error">
    <error code="302">
        <message>
      User authentication failed.
    </message>
    </error>
</response>

 

CarolineS's avatar
CarolineS
Boss
5 years ago

Hi irach15 -

I am far far FAR from an expert on this, but here is what I did. 

(1) Call /authentication/sessions/login to get a session key: 

(2) Once you get that session key, save it in the Headers for your next request:

Hope that helps!