[ECODP-dev] ckan api call does not work

Thu Sep 26 10:30:54 UTC 2013

Thank you John,
indeed from what you replied, that I would expect too. But for example, 
REST calls: package_create and package_update worked.

Best
Dimitrios

On 26/09/2013 12:26, John Glover wrote:
> Hi Dimitrios,
>
> More details can be found here [1]. I do not fully understand your 
> question, but I would expect this to effect all POST requests where 
> authorization is required. Was this not the case?
>
> [1] 
> https://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationDirectives#WSGIPassAuthorization
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
> On 26 September 2013 11:04, Dimitrios Mexis 
> <dimitrios.mexis at tenforce.com <mailto:dimitrios.mexis at tenforce.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi John,
>
>     can you give us more details on what this flags do ?
>
>     I don't understand, how does that affect this case of POST-ing
>     this command, but does not affect the rest of the Rest API calls
>     where an API key is necessity ?
>
>     Regards
>     Dimitrios
>
>
>     On 26/09/2013 10:50, John Glover wrote:
>>     Hi Bert,
>>
>>     This issue should now be resolved. It seems that someone at
>>     TenForce had commented out the following line in the Apache config:
>>
>>     WSGIPassAuthorization On
>>
>>     As noted in a comment above this line, this needs to be enabled
>>     in order to authenticate users via the API, so I have uncommented
>>     it and restarted Apache.
>>
>>     I don't think that this is the cause of your other issue however.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     John
>>
>>
>>     On 25 September 2013 17:33, Bert Van Nuffelen
>>     <bert.van.nuffelen at tenforce.com
>>     <mailto:bert.van.nuffelen at tenforce.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi John,
>>
>>         the next call fails with an authorization error, although I
>>         take the api key from the sysadmin user api.
>>
>>         curl -X POST "http://localhost/data/api/action/member_create"
>>         -d "{\"id\": \"cnect\", \"object\": \"bert\",
>>         \"object_type\": \"user\", \"capacity\": \"editor\"}" -H
>>         "Authorization: 92861889-a030-4ac8-b887-46495a740ebc"
>>
>>         Bert
>>
>>
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