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

Timothy Lebo lebot at rpi.edu
Wed Dec 7 13:55:26 UTC 2011


cpan-dev,


On Dec 6, 2011, at 6:24 PM, Rufus Pollock wrote:

> On 6 December 2011 18:16, Timothy Lebo <lebot at rpi.edu> wrote:
>> 
> 
>> 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.)

Would it be appropriate to modify
http://wiki.ckan.org/Using_the_API
to reflect this change from "package" to "dataset"?

Also, a note about using X-CPAN instead of "Authorization" header would be helpful at
http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api.html#api-keys

Thanks,
Tim


> 
>> 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 ...
> 
> Rufus




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