Trouble with api_token authorization at https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/#!/Comments/post_comments

Bug Reports
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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings): base url: /v1 , api version: 1.3.0

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox, curl

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/#!/Comments/post_comments

Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on computers and mobile devices: https://www.take-a-screenshot.org/):

Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.): Unauthenticated gets work fine. For example, getting an observation by id. POSTing a comment with an API authorization header results in a 401.

Step 1: Get an api_token at https://www.inaturalist.org/users/api_token (log in as necessary)

Step 2: Authorize API key through web site (paste value of key and authorize … ! goes to i and header value is displayed.

Step 3: Add request body through web page, setting type, parent id and body comment.

Step 4: Try it!

Result: 401 response code and ```
{
“error”: {
“original”: {
“error”: “You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.”
}
},
“status”: 401
}


Same failure when using curl copied and pasted from web browser.
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Thanks for the bug report. Also thanks for the screenshot, but I have removed it from the post because it contained your JWT which should be kept private. I’ll take a look at this and get back to you.

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At a quick glance, looks like the problem might be the quotes around the authorization key. You have 'Authorization: "JWT"', but it should be 'Authorization: JWT'. Try removing those internal quotes and trying again

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that worked! thanks. I figured it was something silly I was doing.

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