[ckan-dev] "Access denied" when POSTing to a dataset I created

Wed Dec 7 02:18:25 UTC 2011

Hello

I had a go at altering your record myself and if failed initially.
There seems to be an issue on that server passing on http_auth which I
have not got to the bottom to yet.

If you need to use the api now, you can use the alternate header
X-CKAN-API-Key i.e

curl http://thedatahub.org/api/rest/dataset/white-house-visitor-access-records
-d @white-house-visitor-access-records -H "X-CKAN-API-Key:apikey"

Sorry if this caused you any inconvenience.

Thanks

David

p.s I would recommend passing back the whole package json each time
not just the tag part.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Timothy Lebo <lebot at rpi.edu> wrote:
> Rufus,
>
> Thanks for suggesting to s/package/dataset/ the URLs.
>
> I tried:
>
> curl http://thedatahub.org/api/rest/dataset/white-house-visitor-access-records -d '{ "tags": ["no-deref-vocab"] }' -H "Authorization:MYKEY"
>
> and still got "Access denied".
>
> Should that have responded to your suggestion?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -Tim
>
>
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>
>> On 6 December 2011 18:16, Timothy Lebo <lebot at rpi.edu> wrote:
>>> ckan-dev,
>>
>> Welcome!
>>
>>> I am getting an "Access denied" message when trying to POST a modification to a dataset [1] that I originally created using the web page UI [0].
>>>
>>> I used the following steps, based on [2]:
>>>
>>> 1) curl -O http://thedatahub.org/api/rest/package/white-house-visitor-access-records
>>> 2) modified local file "white-house-visitor-access-records" to include a tag ("tags": ["no-deref-vocab"])
>>> 3) curl http://thedatahub.org/api/rest/package/white-house-visitor-access-records -d @white-house-visitor-access-records -H "Authorization:Aa8...Bb2"
>>> (where "Aa8...Bb2" is my API key from http://thedatahub.org/user/timrdf)
>>
>> Can I suggest replacing package with dataset and seeing what happens.
>>
>> ("package" terminology has been replaced with "dataset" throughout
>> CKAN and the DataHub. package urls redirect to dataset but we have
>> heard that command line tools / clients can have problems with
>> redirects.)
>>
>>> I was successful in applying these steps to add a tag "no-deref-vocab" to the test dataset http://test.ckan.net/dataset/9f825e18-0e0c-40f6-8895-b5392c1ac18a, which I created according to [3].
>>
>> I note here you have dataset not package ...
>>
>>> Could anyone suggest what I am doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thank you for your consideration.
>>
>> Not at all and great to hear from you!
>>
>> Rufus
>>
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