[annotator-dev] TokenUrl problem

Mon Oct 12 22:05:13 UTC 2015

Can you paste the full headers of the tokenUrl response?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:19 PM Andy Kinge <kinge.andy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to use v1.2.10 (i.e. latest stable) of annotator on a
> single page on my own website, using annotateit.org for storage and with
> my own token generator to provide delegated authentication so that many
> people can annotate the page.
>
> I thought I had wired it all together correctly, but I'm finding that I
> can't authenticate with http://annotateit.org/api/annotations if I use
> tokenUrl in the config, like so:
>
> jQuery(function ($) {
>     $('#content').annotator().annotator('addPlugin', 'Auth', { tokenUrl: '
> http://mydomain/cgi-bin/token' });
>     ...
>
> POST http://annotateit.org/api/annotations 401 UNAUTHORIZED
>
> "Cannot authorize request (create annotation). Perhaps you're not logged in as a user with appropriate permissions on this annotation? (user=None, consumer=None)"
>
> however, if I take the token generated by my generator and paste it
> directly in the config like this:
>
>  $('#content').annotator().annotator('addPlugin', 'Auth', { token:
> 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1***************'}); /*token redacted for this example */
>
> then I can authenticate, create annotations and they are persisted as
> expected.
>
> I've noticed that in the latter case, the token is passed to the
> annotations endpoint in an x-annotator-auth-token header, but with
> tokenUrl this doesn't happen.
>
> I've obviously missed something basic, but I can't for the life of me see
> why it's not working, any pointers would be gratefully received!
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
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