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rsingh1988_3382
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Dec 14, 2017

iControlRest curl API call fails

Hi All I am new to iControlRest API and am trying to learn it. I am stuck at very first step i believe and not able to progress further. I am using admin credential here but I am getting http erro...
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    rsingh1988_3382
    Jan 03, 2018

    Thank you for the comment but I found the problem and commenting here as it may help beginners like me. Since I had special characters in my admin password curl wasn't accepting them hence i send credentail as a key value pair in string format.

    curl -k -u 'admin:xys@3a' -X GET https://bigipf5/mgmt/ltm

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Jan 03, 2018

Thank you for the comment but I found the problem and commenting here as it may help beginners like me. Since I had special characters in my admin password curl wasn't accepting them hence i send credentail as a key value pair in string format.

curl -k -u 'admin:xys@3a' -X GET https://bigipf5/mgmt/ltm