Too short user for http request

General
1

Hi, I am trying to use http request node to acquire a token specified for a service(Based on IBM). The curl format is specified as:

curl "https://iam.ng.bluemix.net/identity/token" -d "apikey=12345678&grant_type=urn%3Aibm%3Aparams%3Aoauth%3Agrant-type%3Aapikey" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -u "bx:bx"

The Issue is that the user is too small for the fields within the request node in Node-Red, if I enter "bx" for the password it is replaced by something different.

Also I am a little unsure how to set the payload so it matches the specification. I have tried:

msg.payload="apikey=12345678gk&grant_type=urn%3Aibm%3Aparams%3Aoauth%3Agrant-type%3Aapikey";

Where obviously I entered my own apikey instead of 12345678.

Any help is appreciated,

Dillon

2

we replace the password with a dummy value so that value "visible" in the browser cannot be scraped. The value saved on the server side is the value you typed and is not replaced.

3

Okay, so it still should be "bx" if I typed it?

I have the flow:

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with the function set as follows:
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However, it gives an empty output instead of a large token as expected.
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I tried the format in the cmd window and it works

4

You should probably set payload to a key/value object:

msg.payload= {
   apikey: "12345678gk",
   grant_type="urn:ibm:params:oauth:grant-type:apikey"
};
5

I did, still empty result. A little strange.Can Node-red retrieve the IAM tokens for IBM? This is the requests task.