Missing captcha response

[KhDenys]

Hi, looks like from today the login endpoint requires captchaResponse field and does not work without it. But where can I get a captcha response?

[alamine42]

+1

[DrProfSgtMrJ]

When I asked Sling support, they legit told me this:

Hi there,
Thank you for reaching out. The dev team has informed us the only way to access Sling via API at this time is to log into the account from the web as regular customers do, and from the Login response copy the Authorization token and use it in the API calls. Could you try this to see if it works?
Sling Support

I don't know if this is a temporary solution, or the expected long term solution. I'm not sure if this Authorization token expires (and if so, how long it lasts) either....

[jamesjjk]

It expires!

[tom-prochwicz]

We have the same issue, and the support team know nothing about this change. +1

[rafal-pronko-ramp]

👍

[jamesjjk]

Hi, looks like from today the login endpoint requires captchaResponse field and does not work without it. But where can I get a captcha response?

You should not need one, neither should you require to copy an auth token from a browser.

[alamine42]

@jamesjjk maybe I'm missing something, but not only does the API documentation for the /login endpoint state otherwise, even the bash script referenced in this Sling help article fails with the following error message:

{"message": "Missing captcha response"}

[jamesjjk]

@alamine42 Simply another customer, but they should not be protecting an API endpoint with a human captcha, you would in theory never be able to generate a "google captcha" for API login.

[DrProfSgtMrJ]

They emailed me stating that they plan on whitelisting email addresses...

[smorloc]

When I asked Sling support, they legit told me this:

Hi there, Thank you for reaching out. The dev team has informed us the only way to access Sling via API at this time is to log into the account from the web as regular customers do, and from the Login response copy the Authorization token and use it in the API calls. Could you try this to see if it works? Sling Support

Has anyone been able to get this to work? I need to get by this roadblock even if it currently requires manual intervention.

[smorloc]

Last Saturday I requested that an email address used in our application be whitelisted. I received a reply today that the request was fulfilled. I cursory test of our application showed we were able to get authenticated.