# SSO Logout via Master API Key isn't working
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-logout-via-master-api-key-isnt-working/56485
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 27, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-logout-via-master-api-key-isnt-working/56485 "2017-01-27T19:30:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@n4ru](https://meta.discourse.org/u/n4ru)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-logout-via-master-api-key-isnt-working/56485/1 "2017-01-27T19:30:50Z")
```
discourseId = json.loads(urlopen('http://example.com/users/by-external/' + str(g.user_id) + '.json').read().decode('utf-8'))['user']['id']
# This doesn't work and I have no idea why
urlopen("http://example.com/admin/users/" + str(discourseId) + "/log_out?api_key=2345139133012345678909de3a3a4fc3ed01abcdef347b983667b0b1f00efb25&api_username=system")
```
Not my actual API key.
I’ve verified that the user\_id passed to discourseId is correct, and I’m able to run the log\_out endpoint with no error, it just doesn’t work! I’ve also tried using the actual user in place of system, to no avail.
Am I missing something?
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-logout-via-master-api-key-isnt-working/56485/2 "2017-01-27T20:48:41Z")
It works if it’s a POST request. Try passing the api\_key and api\_username as data.
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### Author:  [@n4ru](https://meta.discourse.org/u/n4ru)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-logout-via-master-api-key-isnt-working/56485/3 "2017-01-27T21:53:07Z")
That worked. Thanks a bunch.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-logout-via-master-api-key-isnt-working/56485/4 "2017-01-30T01:28:46Z")