The Movie Database Support
Support → API-support
When I search popular person, it returns Authentication error
Inlagt av flyingfishercnSTAFFMOD den 21 oktober 2013 vid 10:36 PM
Hi, I'm in china, when I make some demo , it returns 401 Authentication error, the flowing is my Android log:
22 10:12:08.243 W/DefaultRequestDirector( 9454): Authentication error: Unable to respond to any of these challenges: {}
10-22 10:12:08.243 W/HttpRetriever( 9454): Error 401 for URL http://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/popular/api_key=###
Does something wrong with the URl, I do the demo as http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2010/10/android-full-app-part-4-asynchronous.html described.
Svar från flyingfishercn
den 21 oktober 2013 vid 11:15 PM
I do all the work on Android, and used VPN(which can shielded The Great Wall of China ), but the error keeps there.
what's the problem?Can someone help me?
Svar från Travis Bell
den 21 oktober 2013 vid 11:26 PM
You're not specifying the API key properly. You need set it as an HTTP parameter.
Svar från flyingfishercn
den 21 oktober 2013 vid 11:30 PM
In my android.log on my local machine, it displays OK. I don't know why, it seems that when I pasted it, the api_key was replaced by ###. I do the paste again here. Error 401 for URL http://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/popular/api_key=###
Svar från Travis Bell
den 21 oktober 2013 vid 11:38 PM
That's not what I was referring to. I changed it. Don't paste your API key publicly. It should be treated privately. I was referring to the way you're setting it. You need to set it with a question mark (?). Look at my example. You're not setting a valid HTTP parameter.
Svar från flyingfishercn
den 21 oktober 2013 vid 11:49 PM
wow, Thanks very much to you, Travis. Everything looks ok now.
Svar från Travis Bell
den 21 oktober 2013 vid 11:52 PM
No problem.