Bitglass API returning 403 (Unauthorized) status from Azure portal but is successful from other platforms.

Question

The Api call for URL - "https://portal.eu.bitglass.net/api/bitglassapi/logs?type=cloudsummary&responseformat=csv&startdate=2016-09-10T04:25:05Z&cv=1.0.1" shows status as unauthorized when the call is made from Azure portal through Azure cli as well as Azure function app but returns response from other platforms like postman, online curl even other cloud clis.

Answer 1

Hi
From the forcepoint docs it looks like there may be more than one auth option for their apis but looking at the redacted screen shots you included for curl I would assume you're using basic auth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

basic auth requires a base64 encoded Authorization header which is username:password (as per the wiki link)

REF https://help.forcepoint.com/fpone/deploy/rhtml/guid-10bc8f08-eb1e-4597-9fbd-79189e634f61.html

So you need the http request to include a valid basic auth header and this should solve the problem

To your specific question:
Again going by your screen shots I think this may be a CURL issue , CURL will add the auth header but allows you to pass the credential as a parameter . But, I dont know if the CURL in the Az cloud shell is working the same as the CURL in the other terminal window . Possibly not going on your example

Hope this helps