"no auth mechanism defined"

Troubleshooting
1

From: https://docs.particle.io/reference/api/#create-a-webhook

I'm creating a webhook with basic authentication. Using the curl parameter:

-d auth='{"username":"username","password":"password"}'

but the webhook is generating the error message: "no auth mechanism defined"

Based on the response from these posts I'm fairly certain that the particle cloud isn't really ready for any business critical applicatons.

2

It worked for me in the following case. Here’s the webhook:

{
    "event": "test4",
    "url": "http://requestb.in/1j59x3i1",
    "requestType": "POST",
    "auth": {
    	"username":"testuser",
    	"password":"secret"
    },
    "json": {
		"name": "{{PARTICLE_EVENT_NAME}}",
		"value": "{{PARTICLE_EVENT_VALUE}}"
    },
    "mydevices": true,
    "noDefaults": true
}

I generated the publish using:

particle publish test4 testing --private

Here’s what arrived at request bin:

requestbin.png854×660 49.7 KB

The authorization header was:

Authorization: Basic dGVzdHVzZXI6c2VjcmV0

Doing the Base64 decode I get:

test user:secret

More webhook information here: https://github.com/rickkas7/particle-webhooks

3

Good to know it’s possible. It looks like my issue is from particle.io escaping json passed in an application/x-wwww-form-urlencoded value. The whole message must be converted to json if you want to use any of the properties which accept an object child. This makes their documentation rather pointless as it focuses on curl.

4

thanks for the help!