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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Mar 22, 2016
I have done the above exercise and received my token, but the token seems to expire? The toke works while I am actively running GET and POST requests, but if I take a break and come back after some amount of time, the token no longer works and I receive a 401 error with the following: { "code": 401, "message": "X-F5-Auth-Token does not exist.",