v2/entries.json?ids=BLAH,BLAH returning 401 error with known good credentials about feedbin-api HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @jaredsinclair,

I think I see what's going on and have hopefully fixed the issue. I updated Rails last night and something did change that would prevent Unread from syncing.

Looking at the traffic from Charles Proxy I can see most requests that Unread makes for an initial sync go through successfully:

GET /v2/unread_entries.json HTTP/1.1
Host: api.feedbin.me
User-Agent: Unread/105 (iPhone; iOS 7.1.1; Scale/2.00)
Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX==

However the /entries.json requests that are failing look a little different:

GET /v2/entries.json HTTP/1.1
Host: api.feedbin.me
User-Agent: Unread/105 (iPhone; iOS 7.1.1; Scale/2.00)
Authorization: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX==

The difference is that the Authorization header does not specify that it is using Basic authentication.

In other words:

• Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX== Works
• Authorization: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX== Does not work

Why did this stop working? Good question.

I found a pull request that has been merged into the version of Rails that Feedbin is now using that checks if the authorization scheme is Basic.

I've made a change to prepend Basic to Authorization headers that are missing it which should allow customers to sync successfully again.

It would probably also be good to have Unread use Basic in a future update.

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Thanks! I will do that.

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On Jul 8, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Ben Ubois [email protected] wrote:

Hi @jaredsinclair,

I think I see what's going on and have hopefully fixed the issue. I updated Rails last night and something did change that would prevent Unread from syncing.

Looking at the traffic from Charles Proxy I can see most requests that Unread makes for an initial sync go through successfully:

GET /v2/unread_entries.json HTTP/1.1
Host: api.feedbin.me
User-Agent: Unread/105 (iPhone; iOS 7.1.1; Scale/2.00)
Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX==
However the /entries.json requests that are failing look a little different:

GET /v2/entries.json HTTP/1.1
Host: api.feedbin.me
User-Agent: Unread/105 (iPhone; iOS 7.1.1; Scale/2.00)
Authorization: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX==
The difference is that the Authorization header does not specify that it is using Basic authentication.

In other words:

Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX== Works
Authorization: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX== Does not work
Why did this stop working? Good question.

I found a pull request that has been merged into the version of Rails that Feedbin is now using that checks if the authorization scheme is Basic.

I've made a change to prepend Basic to Authorization headers that are missing it which should allow customers to sync successfully again.

It would probably also be good to have Unread use Basic in a future update.

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