topic 401 Unauthorized when trying to use REST API in Getting Data In

401 Unauthorized when trying to use REST API

yallami — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:13:07 GMT

Hello, i am trying to intergrate the Splunk Ui Toolkit into my own Splunk instace that is running on localhost.

I am using react to get a sessionkey with the following function:

async function GetSessionKey(username, password, server) {

var key = await fetch(server + "/services/auth/login", {

method: "POST",

body: new URLSearchParams({

username: username,

password: password,

output_mode: "json",

}),

headers: {

"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",

})

.then((response) => response.json())

.then((data) => {

return data["sessionKey"];

});
But i always get this on my network showing

Re: 401 Unauthorized when trying to use REST API

tscroggins — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:44:11 GMT

Hi @yallami,

At a glance, do username and password contain special or unsafe characters? You may need e.g.:

{ username: encodeURIComponent(username), password: encodeURIComponent(password), output_mode: "json" }

Re: 401 Unauthorized when trying to use REST API

tscroggins — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 14:56:20 GMT

--you may also need to perform other sanity checks on username and password before passing them to encodeURIComponent. Check mdn etc. for examples.

Re: 401 Unauthorized when trying to use REST API

yallami — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:12:37 GMT

Thank you for your answers. It turned out, I had to trust the ssl certificate.