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Getting {"error":"access_denied"} when trying to get access token

Here is the part of code that calls the endpoint (to get a glimpse of headers, method etc.):


Unirest.setTimeouts(0, 0);

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.refinitiv.com:443/auth/oauth2/v1/token")

.header("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

.field("grant_type", "password")

.field("username", "***************")

.field("password", "***************")

.field("takeExclusiveSignOnControl", "True")

.field("scope", "trapi")

.field("client_id", "********************")

.asString();


Here’s what I get from server:

Response body:
{"error":"access_denied" }


HTTP status: 400

Headers:

Date Tue, 30 Jun 2020 14:24:59 GMT

Content-Type application/json

Content-Length 29

Connection keep-alive

X-Amzn-Trace-Id Root=1-5efb4b3b-4a278e16d28720ec9826d572

X-Served-By region=eu-west-1; cid=9b0a08d5-13b9-4b70-bc36-90e6c60e0089

X-Tr-Requestid 52ddba1d-31a4-4b9f-bc55-30d1834d5c81


Credentials are ok, because if I change them to the wrong ones - I get different message.

I've tried sending request with Postman, Refinitiv provided Python script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Refinitiv/websocket-api/master/Applications/Examples/EDP/python/market_price_edpgw_service_discovery.py

Result is totally same.

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The ERT in Cloud team has verify the issue and found the root cause. The issue comes from corrupted DNS cache in the network level. The issue is now resolved.

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Hi @adomm, Have you generated the AppKey and using that parameter in the client ID. Please see this step-by-step quick start guide. If you are still getting access denied message, it would imply that your credentials are incorrect. Please contact you Refinitiv account manager in that case.

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Thank you for answer Gurpeet. Forgot to mention that code worked successfully before for quite a while and it stopped working just out of the blue. And yes, I did follow Quick start and yes, I generated AppKey and used as client id.
Password doesn't seem to be a problem as if I actually change the password to the wrong one - I get a different message.
I'm in contact with support and no one has a slightest clue what's going on.

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What is the message when wrong password is used. Could you post complete return messages.

Here is what I get on wrong username/password:

HTTP 400:
{"error":"access_denied"  ,"error_description":"Invalid username or password." }

And on incorrect client ID:

HTTP 401:
{"error":"invalid_client"  ,"error_description":"Invalid Application Credential." } 


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When wrong password is used I get HTTP status 400 and Body: {'error': 'access_denied', 'error_description': 'Invalid username or password.'}

When password is right I get just: {"error":"access_denied" }

If needed - I can provide X-Amzn-Trace-Id, X-Served-By and X-Tr-Requestid header values which might help debugging, I guess.



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Please take it up with your account manager. Thanks.

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Hi @Gurpreet.

Can you please investigate the bold/italic part above with development? This is the point where things go wrong on Adomas environment.

I have used his credentials and get the following.

* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS updated)!


Regards,

Erol



Note: Unnecessary use of -X or --request, POST is already inferred.2JmZDY0NmY4NGE1MGE2MjJlMzYyNDRlYW

* Trying 52.19.116.133:443...

* TCP_NODELAY set

* Connected to api.refinitiv.com (52.19.116.133) port 443 (#0)

* ALPN, offering h2

* ALPN, offering http/1.1

* successfully set certificate verify locations:

* CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

CApath: /etc/ssl/certs

* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14):

* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16):

* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):

* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):

* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):

* SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256

* ALPN, server accepted to use h2

* Server certificate:

* subject: C=US; postalCode=10036; ST=New York; L=New York; street=3 Times Square; O=REFINITIV US LLC; OU=RDP; CN=api.refinitiv.com

* start date: May 29 00:00:00 2020 GMT

* expire date: May 29 23:59:59 2021 GMT

* subjectAltName: host "api.refinitiv.com" matched cert's "api.refinitiv.com"

* issuer: C=GB; ST=Greater Manchester; L=Salford; O=COMODO CA Limited; CN=COMODO RSA Organization Validation Secure Server CA

* SSL certificate verify ok.

* Using HTTP2, server supports multi-use

* Connection state changed (HTTP/2 confirmed)

* Copying HTTP/2 data in stream buffer to connection buffer after upgrade: len=0

* Using Stream ID: 1 (easy handle 0x564ee25fddb0)

> POST /auth/oauth2/v1/token HTTP/2

> Host: api.refinitiv.com

> user-agent: curl/7.68.0

> accept: application/json

> content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

> authorization: Basic MDA1N2JmZDY0NmY4NGE1MGE2MjJlMzYyNDRlYWIzMWM2ZGI4NjQ1ODo=

> content-length: 188

>

* Connection state changed (MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS == 128)!

* We are completely uploaded and fine

< HTTP/2 400

< date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:16:30 GMT

< content-type: application/json

< content-length: 29

< x-amzn-trace-id: Root=1-5efdde2d-6a3384aa010ef27c7d3289cc

< x-served-by: region=eu-west-1; cid=7936fa55-77dc-4fa7-a9f8-80bc66a20408

< x-tr-requestid: 8f714e38-d958-4a68-a128-6535002deab2

<

* Connection #0 to host api.refinitiv.com left intact

{"error":"access_denied" }



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Hi Erol, We can provide technical API support, but don't have any visibility into product deployment. It is best to raise a service ticket at my.refinitiv.com for product team to look into the issue.

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