Trouble with Authentication and Privilege Errors Using OpenMRS API

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Hi everyone,

I’m having with authentication and privilege errors when trying to use the OpenMRS API via cURL (and also in another application, when I try the request), although everything works fine in Postman. I’m using the default admin:Admin123 authentication encoded in Base64.

For instance, the following request works as expected in Postman. However, when I try it in cURL (with the -k flag to bypass a certificate error), I receive an error message about missing privileges:

curl -k -L -X GET 'http://localhost/openmrs/ws/rest/v1/encounter?patient=cdfc6d18-6f7c-4a94-b26c-baef4c804164' \
-H 'Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46QWRtaW4xMjM='


"error": {
  "message": "User is not logged in [Privileges required: Get Patients]",
  "code": "org.openmrs.aop.AuthorizationAdvice:111"
}

Any clues? Thanks in advance!

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Using https instead of http fixed, it was redirecting to https and changing the cookie session it seems :sweat_smile:

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