I got it to work by adding "Content-Type" => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
To the header. See https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Requests.jl/issues/52#issuecomment-117821209 On Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at 1:45:54 PM UTC+2, Patrick Kofod Mogensen wrote: > > > > I'm trying to get a token to access Reddits API. I can get one perfectly > fine with > > curl -X POST -d 'grant_type=password&username=[MYNAME]&password=[MYPASS]' > --user 'CLIENTID:CLIENTSECRET' https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token > > This gives me what I need. I kind of want to retrieve it directly from > julia (maybe to be used in a Reddit.jl-package), but I can't get it to > work. I would have guessed that the following post-request was the same, > but it seems not to be the case. > > enc = bytestring(encode(Base64, "CLIENTID:CLIENTSECRET")) > post(URI("https://www.reddit.com/api/v1/access_token";), > "grant_type=password&username=[MYNAME]&password=[MYPASS]"; headers = > Dict("Authorization" => "Basic $enc", "User-Agent" => UserAgent)) > % UserAgent is a string here > > Do you have any idea why these POST requests are not the same ? They can't > be, as the Julia post call gives me > > "{\"error\": \"unsupported_grant_type\"}" > > Is there maybe a way for me to see the POST request produced by post()? > > Thanks for the help in advance. > Patrick >
