# Invalid\_access error

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-access-error/175657>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 10, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-access-error/175657 "2021-01-10T05:18:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Minhaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/minhaj/32/137595_2.png) [@Minhaj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Minhaj)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-access-error/175657/7 "2021-01-11T17:54:25Z")

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I am passing credentials correctly. I verified it by trying to fetch an internal topic by `id` which can’t be fetched without proper credentials. But seems like only working query I can do is on `discourse-url/t/tid.json`. Anything else simply returns error 403.

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