Authentication Failed

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Authentication Failed

Closed this issue 8 years ago · 8 comments

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Content-Length: 71
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 19:13:59 GMT
ETag: W/"47-QF6qBiKtCUQCLU0A2DNoVg"
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set-cookie: connect.sid=s%3ADBjDmYnygsM3- 82Cw9e20F_8at65WasY.sSMgGuVZT0SxTBegG6TVOetY24eo7rp4FVr%2FuGnwOTs; Path=/; HttpOnly

{
"response": {
"description": "authentication failed",
"return_code": "42"
}
}
Am getting an Authentication error, any way around it?

Answer 1 · 2016-06-12T16:31:50.000Z

@denzelwamburu First of all. The return code has not been mapped to a HTTP status. The Safaricom documentation does not have this error code documented.

Then this might be the PASSWORD generated does not validate with the SAG endpoint. Check you have all of your configurations right. Starting with the PASSKEY you are allocated and PAYBILL No.

Answer 2 · 2016-06-15T08:45:19.000Z

@denzelwamburu Were you able to sort this out?

Answer 3 · 2016-06-15T15:31:35.000Z

@kn9ts Sorry for the late reply. Let me fetch then i try once more.

Answer 4 · 2016-06-15T15:58:11.000Z

Now it's returning a 500 error code.

Answer 5 · 2016-06-15T16:00:13.000Z

Does safaricom provide a sandbox account for the paybills?

Answer 6 · 2016-06-15T17:15:28.000Z

@denzelwamburu Am curious. Do you have a PAYBILL_NO and PASSKEY? Did you get them from Safaricom MPESA API guys?

Answer 7 · 2016-06-15T17:19:04.000Z

Could you please follow these steps: http://kn9ts.github.io/project-mulla/docs/configuration.html

Answer 8 · 2016-06-16T06:49:14.000Z

Guess i will close the issue now 😃