Please could I ask a question with regards the WC1 API and the characters it accepts.

John Williams

Please could I ask a question with regards the WC1 API and the
characters it accepts.

Basically, we are running a few tests and I’m getting the
following error for some entities/clients that we are trying to upload:

Unauthorized : The request has failed an authorisation check. This
can happen for a variety of reasons, such as an invalid or expired API key, an
invalid HMAC signature or a request timing issue/problem with the Date header
value. The API client should ensure a correctly synchronised clock is used to
generate request timestamps.

I have noticed that the name(s) of these entities/clients contain
unicode characters.

If I were to amend these names not to include the characters they
work OK.

I just wanted to check if the WC1 API accepts such characters.

John

rodney.mcclean01

Hi @John Williams,

You need to be very careful when
using Unicode characters to make sure the contentLength is correct in the
signed data.

If you look at the pre-requisite
script for the cases call in PostMan (SEQ-2b or SEQ 2c) you’ll see it uses the
following code
to get the content length.

var
contentLength = unescape(encodeURIComponent(content)).length;

If the length value is
wrong, then the authorisation will fail.

Regards,

Rodney