[Developers] [+] Using CURL for freebase login

[Niall O'Higgins]

Try it this way:

curl -d 'username=foo' -d 'password=bar' http://www.sandbox-freebase.com/api/account/login

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:03:10PM -0400, Matthew Chan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried all day to get freebase to respond to my php authentication 
> function.
> 
> I've narrowed it down to my Curl query I think. Does anyone know what is 
> wrong with this?
> 
> Thanks in advanced.
> Matt
> 
> [matthew at laptop php]$ curl --data-urlencode "{'username':'****', 
> 'password':'****'}" http://sandbox.freebase.com/api/account/login
> {
>    "code": "/api/status/error",
>    "messages": [
>      {
>        "code": "/api/status/error/input/invalid",
>        "info": {
>          "field": "username",
>          "value": null
>        },
>        "message": "Missing value"
>      },
>      {
>        "code": "/api/status/error/input/invalid",
>        "info": {
>          "field": "password",
>          "value": null
>        },
>        "message": "Missing value"
>      }
>    ],
>    "status": "400 Bad Request",
>    "transaction_id": 
> "cache;cache01.sandbox.sjc1:8101;2009-06-15T20:54:52Z;0002"
> 
> 
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Niall O'Higgins
Software Engineer
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.