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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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kunjan's avatar
kunjan
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May 03, 2014

May be can try 'admin' if you are using a different user.

 

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Sergei_Genchev_
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Jul 24, 2014
If you use RADIUS, LDAP or some other external authentication, REST does not work unless you also have the same user defined locally. Admin will always work because admin is always local account.