Demystifying iControl REST Part 6: Token-Based Authentication

iControl REST. It’s iControl SOAP’s baby, brother, introduced back in TMOS version 11.4 as an early access feature but released fully in version 11.5. Several articles on basic usage have been writ...
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Nov 26, 2015
Hi, firstly thanks for whole series, this has been helping me a lot. Regarding this token auth stuff, is the code you wrote supposed to be used by python 3.x? I use Python 2.7, but have issues to run your script even without any changes and I get the error like bellow (hopefully it will not be reformated) Traceback (most recent call last): File "auth_test.py", line 46, in token = get_token(b, url_auth, (username, password)) File "auth_test.py", line 15, in get_token token = bigip.post(url, json.dumps(payload)).json()['token']['token'] KeyError: 'token'