Curl post works but Python Requests post doesn't, gives 401 Unauthorized

Question

I can do this Curl:

curl -X POST -k --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d '{"grant_type":"password","username":"admin","password":"admin"}' 'https://<ip_address>/api/fdm/v3/fdm/token'

and get an access token from the firewall API I'm working on. But I'm trying to get it to work in Python using requests:

headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Accept": "application/json"
}

payload = {
"grant_type": "password",
"username": "admin",
"password": "admin"
}

r = requests.post('https://<ip_address>/api/fdm/v3/fdm/token', headers=headers, data=payload, verify=False)

and I get a 401 Unauthorized. I also tried converting my payload to json and doing json=payload in my requests.post but get the same results. What am I doing wrong? Does curl send some default header info I'm not including in my requests? Thanks!

mincrmatt12 · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-04 02:40:41Z

2

You need to use the json parameter to requests.post. What you are doing there is sending a form data request.

Something like:

r = requests.post('https://<ip_address>/api/fdm/v3/fdm/token', headers=headers, json=payload, verify=False)

answered Jun 4, 2020 at 2:40

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