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Prakash_Krishna's avatar
Prakash_Krishna
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May 03, 2014

Providing right credential to connect the F5 device using RestAPI is always throwing 401 error

Hi All,   Here I am using RestAPI to connect to the device. I am always getting the http 401 error even my credentials are right and able to reach the same url using webbrowser.   Can anybody h...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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May 03, 2014

Not sure what your initial request looks like, but it may be worthwhile to test the same with cURL at the command line:

curl -sk -u admin:admin -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST https://x.x.x.x/mgmt/tm/sys/software/volume -d '{...post data...}'

Also, and this may just be an artifact of your logs, but note the credentials do not go in the POST data. They need to presented however your Java-based app would work with HTTP Basic authentication.