Thanks Tom, it is indeed working with the username.
Colin
On 2019-05-30 21:45, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 30/05/2019 20:33, Colin Smale wrote:
>
>> A (private) program I use which accesses the OSM API has stopped working
>> since the last time I used it, a couple of weeks ago. Read-only calls to the
>> API, including a (proven correct) Authentication header are now failing with
>> 401 Unauthorized, with the returned body indicating a problem with the
>> username/password. The same call without the Authorization header succeeds.
>> I swear nothing has changed on my side; double-checking the auth header with
>> Fiddler shows the username/password I expect, and I can still logout/login
>> using these values (which I haven't changed).
>>
>> Is there anything going on, or has anything changed on the API, that may be
>> causing this?
>>
>> Sample URL: GET on https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/relation/8465619
>>
>> I know I can just remove the authentication - it was added for "future use"
>> anyway - but why has it suddenly broken?
>
> It's a cgimap bug - previously it just ignored basic authentication
> which was fine because it only handled calls where it was optional.
>
> The version does do it but has a bug - we have a fix in hand which
> should be rolled out shortly.
>
> In the meantime try using your username instead of email address and
> make sure you get he case right and it will hopefully work.
>
> Tom
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