error 401 when getting own profile

Question

Hi,

I generated a PAT to be able to call some Azure Devops APIs, and it was working quite well so far, to fetch a list of repositories from a project, or a file in a repository.

Now, following https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/profile/profiles/get?view=azure-devops-rest-7.1 , I need to retrieve my current user details . However, I get a 401.

I use the exact same config (with Postman for now) that works when fetching a file with this URL for instance :

https://dev.azure.com/{orgName}/{ProjName}/_apis/git/repositories/{repoName}/items?path=pom.xml&versionDescriptor.versionType=branch&versionDescriptor.version=main&api-version=7.1-preview.1&includeContentMetadata=true

same headers, same basic authentication with the PAT as username... it works to get a file, but not to get my profile, calling https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/_apis/profile/profiles/me?api-version=7.1-preview.3

Is there something obvious I am missing in the documentation or in my config ?

Answer 1

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