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Re: Web api authorization not working

 

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On Feb 7, 2018 8:31 PM, "Terence Kaite" <terencekaite@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I've been trying to build an external web app that should be making use of
> dhis 2 data through the its' web api endpoints. But when I try to access
> dhis web apis - even after including credentials for authentication
> (username:password bases64encoded) as value for the authorization request
> header, I'm getting a "response for preflight is invalid (redirect)". (I'm
> using basic authentication). And when I monitor the network activity in
> chrome dev tool I came to discover that the preflight OPTION request method
> is also being redirected, which shouldn't be the case.
> I really need to get my app connect to dhis, I'm building it as part of
> the country's Health Information System. I will greatly appreciate any
> assistance in how I can solve this issue, or any workable solution I can
> refer to. Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards
> Terence
>
> Sent from my iPhone

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