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API Poller Headache - Quick question

Hey Guys,

I cannot for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I'm trying to do a simple POST to a URL to request an access token. The request requires a parameter of grant_type=client_credentials. I add the parameter into the body of the request but it is not working, I've tried a ton of different syntax in the body but cannot figure out what to use.

Example curl:

Send a POST request to thingspace.verizon.com/api/ts/v1/oauth2/token with the encoded string in the header.
Curl Example:
curl -X POST -d "grant_type=client_credentials" -H "Authorization: Basic BASE64_ENCODED_APP_KEY_AND_SECRET" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" "/api/ts/v1/oauth2/token"

In postman it works just fine but not in solarwinds.

POSTMAN:

SOLARWINDS:

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gt732

I figured it out.. to anyone who runs into this issue do the following.

1. remove the header content-type

2. remove grant_type from the request body, just leave it blank.

3. add the following to the end of the URL "?grant_type=client_credentials"