OpenTok API Authentication

Question

I am trying to make a call to the OpenTok API in my Angular App. I am using the following code

 $http({
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://api.opentok.com/v2/project/{{apiKey}}/broadcast',
    data: data,
    headers: {
      'Authorization':'X-OPENTOK-AUTH',
      'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
    token: json_web_token
  })

I have a valid json_web_token I am passing in. However whenever I try to make this call I get.

{"code":-1,"message":"No suitable authentication found"}

I am having a hard time figuring out how to set the custom X-OPENTOK-AUTH header. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my code or does anyone have an example of a $http call being made to OpenTok?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '17 at 19:17

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I was making the JSON web token wrong. Had to move this to the backend and do it all there.

This helped https://tokbox.com/blog/author/madhav/

answered Aug 17 '17 at 19:17

Mike F.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '17 at 01:23

To build on Mike's answer the problem is this:

'Authorization':'X-OPENTOK-AUTH',

is incorrect. X-OPENTOK-AUTH should be the header name, not the header value. The Authorization header name is ignored. It should look something like:

'X-OPENTOK-AUTH': 'eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiIxMjMiLCJpc3QiOiJwcm9qZWN0IiwiaWF0IjoxNTAyMzMxNDk3LCJleHAiOjE1MDIzMzE3OTd9.WJ1yJkD6IgXofj85Wyjdl80QEumLVBHIgtj-9vAhOZU'

Please see https://tokbox.com/developer/rest/#authentication for the API reference or https://tokbox.com/blog/jwt-the-new-authentication-scheme-for-opentok-rest-endpoints/ for a blog post on the topic.

OpenTok API Authentication

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