498 invalid token

PhilipYurchuk — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:18:11 GMT

This is to describe a frustrating experience that will hopefully save someone time in the future. I was attempting to use the enrichment service following the documentation here:

http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/arcgis-rest-api/index.html#/Accessing_the_Service/02r300000239000000/

I followed the instructions and successfully generated a token using my login, but every call to the enrichment service led to a 498 invalid token error. I see I'm not the only one with this problem, but nobody bothered posting a solution.

The first problem is that there are two types of accounts, and I signed up for the ArcGIS online account, which the website guided me to. However, there is also a developer account (or capability) I needed to add. The hint for this was a link in the docs to a developer plan - but the link is broken. But it also said an organization plan (which I believe I signed up for) would work.

After that, I needed to create an application from within the developer interface.

Finally, I had to generate a token using Oauth 2.0. This is a completely different method of authorization from what the REST API docs state. I had to find this documentation here:

https://developers.arcgis.com/authentication/app-logins.html

Using that method generated a token that worked with the enrichment service.

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