topic Can't authenticate to REST API?? in ArcGIS REST APIs and Services Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/can-t-authenticate-to-rest-api/m-p/10252#M50 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Although I'm not at all new to programming/REST, I am new to ArcGIS.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm trying to access the online REST API to do some geocoding and to use the GeoEnrichment service. I have a developer account setup along with one application. I am able to generate and receive an access token, both for my username/password, as well as for my client ID/client secret. However, when I am making requests to the API, I'm not certain on how to send the token back, and I can't find it mentioned anywhere in detail in the documentation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have tried passing the token back in a GET request as a URL parameter. I've tried the name access_token=, as well as simply token=, but to no avail.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can somebody point me in the right direction here?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>-Ethan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:25:01 GMT EthanBarron 2013-09-20T15:25:01Z Can't authenticate to REST API?? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/can-t-authenticate-to-rest-api/m-p/10252#M50 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Although I'm not at all new to programming/REST, I am new to ArcGIS.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm trying to access the online REST API to do some geocoding and to use the GeoEnrichment service. I have a developer account setup along with one application. I am able to generate and receive an access token, both for my username/password, as well as for my client ID/client secret. However, when I am making requests to the API, I'm not certain on how to send the token back, and I can't find it mentioned anywhere in detail in the documentation.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have tried passing the token back in a GET request as a URL parameter. I've tried the name access_token=, as well as simply token=, but to no avail.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can somebody point me in the right direction here?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>-Ethan</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:25:01 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/can-t-authenticate-to-rest-api/m-p/10252#M50 EthanBarron 2013-09-20T15:25:01Z