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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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Richard_Tocci_7's avatar
Richard_Tocci_7
Historic F5 Account
Sep 11, 2014

In 11.5.1, REST will only accept the admin account credentials. Other users that perform other roles, currently, will not work with REST - you will continue to get 401 responses from REST. This should be fixed in an upcoming hotfix.

 

Log a case to Support for further updates. I hear tell of a way to allow other "admin" users to perform REST calls but it requires a script to be run. This is also supposed to be fixed in an upcoming hotfix.