# Work Around to posting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/work-around-to-posting/44413
**Category:** SSO
**Created:** [May 17, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/work-around-to-posting/44413 "2016-05-17T23:42:54Z")
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### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/work-around-to-posting/44413/2 "2016-05-18T00:31:56Z")

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Can you confirm you are using the API key and username as specified here?

> [@Discourse REST API Documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706):
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> Discourse API Please view the Discourse API Documentation site for detailed info: [https://docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org)information_source Authentication API requests must use HTTP header based authentication. Pass your Api-Key and Api-Username as HTTP headers. Authentication via query parameters or request body is not supported (this was removed in April 2020). Please see the example cURL request below. The only API endpoints that continue to support credentials in query parameters are requests to…

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