Request working fine in postman, but getting a 403 in OkHTTP
I'm trying to make a request to the Genius API, but I'm running into some issues using OkHTTP. This is my small script I'm using to make the call:
public class OkHttpScript {
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
String run(String url) throws IOException {
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.header("Authorization", "Bearer uDtfeAgTKL3_YnOxco4NV6B-WVZAIGyuzgH6Yp07FiV9K9ZRFOAa3r3YoxHVG1Gg")
.url(url)
.build();
try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
return response.body().string();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
OkHttpScript okHttpScript = new OkHttpScript();
String response = okHttpScript.run("http://api.genius.com/songs/378195/");
System.out.println(response);
}
}
When I run this script, I get a 403 error:
{"meta":{"status":401,"message":"This call requires an access_token. Please see: https://genius.com/developers"}}
For reference, here is a picture of me making the same exact request with Postman, and it works:
Any ideas on what the problem could be?
Edit:
Not sure if this is normal, but when I print out my request object that gets built, I see no indication that there are headers in the request:
Request{method=GET, url=http://api.genius.com/songs/378195/, tag=null}
Is what I get. Could this be part of the problem?
Edit2:
Nevermind, doing a
System.out.println(newRequest.headers());
gives me what I originally put in:
Authorization: Bearer 4mfDBVzCnp2S1Fc0l0K0cfqOrQYjRrb-OHi8W1f-PPU7LNLI6-cXY2E727-1gHYR
Solution 1:
So I figured out what my problem was. I'm not sure of the details behind it, but I should have been using my URL has https://api.genius.com/songs/378195/
instead of http://api.genius.com/songs/378195/
Postman seems fine with the http, but OkHttp needed https.