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jsmith141
New Contributor III
4 years ago

Passing Body Content in Post Snap

Hi, This is a very novice question, but I am having trouble with a post request snap. This is just to authenticate with the RingCentral platform to receive a token for API consumption. I am able to...
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jsmith141
New Contributor III
4 years ago

Hi Dragan,

Thank you for your reply. I have implemented the encodeURIComponent call as you describe but I am getting the same 400 error. Please see the exact line below…

“grant_type=”+encodeURIComponent(“password”)+“&username=”+encodeURIComponent(account.username)+“&password=”+encodeURIComponent(account.password)

I have the Upload body type fields set to “Multipart form-data”. Does this need to be changed, or is there another setting on this snap that may need to be adjusted?

Thanks,
James

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d_talevski
New Contributor
4 years ago

@jsmith141 You can try removing the account from the REST Post snap and send the account username and password through pipelines parameters to check if it’s working.

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    jsmith141
    New Contributor III
    4 years ago

    I think we can, but first I want to ask, would passing the credentials as pipeline parameters expose them to be intercepted by unwanted parties?

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      jsmith141
      New Contributor III
      4 years ago

      We went ahead and tried it, since it is a sandbox account and it worked, but where do we go from here?

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        ptaylor
        Employee
        4 years ago

        I think I missed something. Why move the credentials to pipeline parameters when you can just use account.username and account.password?