https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584842#M203728 <P>Are you able to get a response when you hit this as a plain curl request?</P> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:33:12 GMT KumaarJai 2022-02-12T09:33:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584841#M203727 <P>to do Splunk search with the help of API I am getting 404 error while doing this call</P><DIV><DIV><SPAN>response = </SPAN><SPAN>self</SPAN><SPAN>.session.get(</SPAN><SPAN>self</SPAN><SPAN>.base_url + </SPAN><SPAN>'/servicesNS/'</SPAN><SPAN>+</SPAN><SPAN>self</SPAN><SPAN>.username+</SPAN><SPAN>'/search/auth/login'</SPAN><SPAN>, </SPAN><SPAN>data</SPAN><SPAN>=payload)</SPAN></DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV><SPAN>can someone please tell me why this is happening?</SPAN></DIV></DIV> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:30:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584841#M203727 test_accenture 2022-02-12T09:30:43Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584842#M203728 <P>Are you able to get a response when you hit this as a plain curl request?</P> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:33:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584842#M203728 KumaarJai 2022-02-12T09:33:12Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584844#M203729 <P>Firstly, I'm not sure if you can call the auth/login in such namespace.</P><P>The API reference says only about</P><PRE>https://&lt;host&gt;:&lt;mPort&gt;/services/auth/login</PRE><P>But more importantly, the auth/login endpoint only supports POST requests. You don't GET from it.</P> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:54:20 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584844#M203729 PickleRick 2022-02-12T09:54:20Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584846#M203731 <P>if I am trying this query with a post request I am getting unauthorized 401 error</P> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:00:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584846#M203731 test_accenture 2022-02-12T11:00:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584848#M203732 <P>Are you sending proper authentication data? <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.4/RESTREF/RESTaccess#auth.2Flogin" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.4/RESTREF/RESTaccess#auth.2Flogin</A></P> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 11:56:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584848#M203732 PickleRick 2022-02-12T11:56:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584849#M203733 <P>do you mean my creds?</P> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 13:13:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584849#M203733 test_accenture 2022-02-12T13:13:43Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584854#M203735 <P>Yes. As shown in the examples in docs.</P><P>Oh, and does your user have the role/capability to use API?</P> Sat, 12 Feb 2022 16:43:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/While-using-splunk-Rest-api-getting-404-error-in-authentication/m-p/584854#M203735 PickleRick 2022-02-12T16:43:10Z