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getting AUTHENTICATED_FAILED on curl

Kween Baker
Kween Baker February 11, 2019

getting AUTHENTICATED_FAILED on curl as follows:

curl -u user:password -X GET "https://confluence.example.com/rest/api/content/" | python -mjson.tool

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Marty
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February 11, 2019

Hi Kween,

keep in mind that the password for the REST API is different to the password you would use to login to your instance via the browser.

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/basic-auth-for-rest-apis/ 

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February 11, 2019

It looks like you've given it an invalid username/password combination.

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