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Hari329
Adept
10 years ago

Using the authorization grant flow via a back-end API call

Hi ,   We are planning to use " authorization grant flow  via a back-end API call ". Could you please let me know the process to get the access token and refresh token after we create API-only user...
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eurcew
Contributor

I'm experiencing pretty much the same issue with a similar error page but a slightly different code.  

 

I submit this

 

http://communities-lithiumstage.sas.com/auth/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<client-id>=&response_type=code&redirect_uri=http://communities-lithiumstage.sas.com/getaccesstoken

 

An Unexpected Error has occurred. - SAS Support Communities

  • Your request failed. Please contact your system administrator and provide the date and time you received the error and this Exception ID: 3336769F.

    Click your browser's Back button to continue.

AdamN's avatar
AdamN
Khoros Oracle
10 years ago

For anyone experiencing the "An Unexpected Error has occurred", please double check that your query string values are URL encoded. client_id and redirect_uri both contain characters that need to be encoded.

 

If you’re testing outside of a coding environment, this tool might be handy:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/