[OSM-dev] API Basic Authentication

[Colin Smale]

Thanks Tom, it is indeed working with the username. 

Colin

On 2019-05-30 21:45, Tom Hughes wrote:

> On 30/05/2019 20:33, Colin Smale wrote:
> 
>> A (private) program I use which accesses the OSM API has stopped working since the last time I used it, a couple of weeks ago. Read-only calls to the API, including a (proven correct) Authentication header are now failing with 401 Unauthorized, with the returned body indicating a problem with the username/password. The same call without the Authorization header succeeds. I swear nothing has changed on my side; double-checking the auth header with Fiddler shows the username/password I expect, and I can still logout/login using these values (which I haven't changed).
>> 
>> Is there anything going on, or has anything changed on the API, that may be causing this?
>> 
>> Sample URL: GET on https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/8465619
>> 
>> I know I can just remove the authentication - it was added for "future use" anyway - but why has it suddenly broken?
> 
> It's a cgimap bug - previously it just ignored basic authentication
> which was fine because it only handled calls where it was optional.
> 
> The version does do it but has a bug - we have a fix in hand which
> should be rolled out shortly.
> 
> In the meantime try using your username instead of email address and
> make sure you get he case right and it will hopefully work.
> 
> Tom
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