The Movie Database Support
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When I search popular person, it returns Authentication error
posted by flyingfishercnSTAFFMOD on October 21, 2013 at 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.
Reply by flyingfishercn
on October 21, 2013 at 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?
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 21, 2013 at 11:26 PM
You're not specifying the API key properly. You need set it as an HTTP parameter.
Reply by flyingfishercn
on October 21, 2013 at 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=###
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 21, 2013 at 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.
Reply by flyingfishercn
on October 21, 2013 at 11:49 PM
wow, Thanks very much to you, Travis. Everything looks ok now.
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 21, 2013 at 11:52 PM
No problem.