# 401 unauthorize status response on Rest API POST Call

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous\
**Tags:** restapi, post\
**Created:** [September 17, 2024, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707 "2024-09-17T07:35:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![newyorktominnesota](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/newyorktominnesota/32/23869_2.png) [@newyorktominnesota](https://forum.katalon.com/u/newyorktominnesota)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/1 "2024-09-17T07:35:39Z")

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I am working to run GET and POST call setup for Salesforce using Katalon. I successfully got the Token and passed it to the GET method that take the Record Id and bring back the JSON response. This is all working fine. Now when i run the POST call i am getting the 401 Unauthorize error message and i was not able to resolve it. Here is my code for the POST call and its response.

```auto
class CRUDOperation {

	final static String queryPath = "/services/data/v49.0/query/";
	final static CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
	final static ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper().enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
	private static String REST_ENDPOINT = "/services/data" ;
	private static String API_VERSION = "/v49.0" ;
	public static Map<String, String> SFTokenandInstanceURL;
	public static String SFDCId;
	public static String instanceUrl, accessToken ;
	public static JSONObject leadDataAPI = new JSONObject();
	private static Map<String, String> lead = new HashMap<String, String>()
	public static Header prettyPrintHeader = new BasicHeader("X-PrettyPrint", "1");
	private static Header oauthHeader;
	private static leadId;

	public static JSONObject createLead() throws Exception {

		SFTokenandInstanceURL = GetSFToken.getSFToken();
		instanceUrl = (String) SFTokenandInstanceURL.get("instanceURL");
		accessToken = (String) SFTokenandInstanceURL.get("accessToken");
		
		//This is fake data
		String leadId = null;
		String firstName = "John" ;
		String lastName	= "Zolensky";
		String email = "John.Zolensky@icbm.com";
		String city = "Chicago";
		String postalcode = "61616" ;
		String state	= "Illinois";
		String mobilephone = "1773219087";
		String phone = "3134520098";
		String title	= "Developer";
		String website = "www.icbm.com";
		String street = "9873 N Pima Rd";
		String company = "Somoto";

		try {
			lead.put("FirstName", firstName);
			lead.put("LastName", lastName);
			lead.put("Email", email);
			lead.put("City", city);
			lead.put("PostalCode", postalcode);
			lead.put("State", state);
			lead.put("MobilePhone", mobilephone);
			lead.put("Phone", phone);
			lead.put("Title", title);
			lead.put("Website", website);
			lead.put("Street", street);
			lead.put("Company", company)
			}
		catch (JSONException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();throw new ServletException(e);
		}

		HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost(instanceUrl+ REST_ENDPOINT+ API_VERSION +"/sobjects/Lead");
		httpost.addHeader("Authorization", "OAuth" + accessToken);
		StringEntity messageEntity = new StringEntity( lead.toString(), ContentType.create("application/json"));
		httpost.setEntity(messageEntity);

		// Execute the request.
		CloseableHttpResponse closeableresponse = httpclient.execute(httpost);
		
		println("Response Status line :" + closeableresponse.getStatusLine());

		try {

			println("HTTP status : " + closeableresponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());

			if (closeableresponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_CREATED) {

				try {

					System.out.println("Record created successfully and here is the Response.............\n\n ");
					
					// Do the needful with entity.
					HttpEntity entity = closeableresponse.getEntity();
					InputStream rstream = entity.getContent();
					JSONObject authResponse = new JSONObject(new JSONTokener(rstream));

					println("Create response: " + authResponse.toString(2));

					if (authResponse.getBoolean("success")) {
						leadId = authResponse.getString("id");
						println("New record id " + leadId + "\n\n");
						leadDataAPI.put("leadSFDCId", leadId);
					}
				} catch (JSONException e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		}
		finally {
			httpclient.close();
		}

		return leadDataAPI;
	}

}

RESPONSE:
2024-09-15 22:12:18.908 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - --------------------
2024-09-15 22:12:18.912 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - START Test Cases/Test
2024-09-15 22:12:19.281 DEBUG testcase.Test - 1: salesforceAPI.CRUDOperation.createLead()

Response Status line :HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
HTTP status : 401
2024-09-15 22:12:22.711 INFO k.k.c.m.CustomKeywordDelegatingMetaClass - salesforceAPI.CRUDOperation.createLead is PASSED
2024-09-15 22:12:22.726 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - END Test Cases/Test
 

```

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**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/original/3X/d/5/d55596ab02785a255798e87ede769734747b30c4.svg) [@system](https://forum.katalon.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/2 "2024-09-17T07:35:39Z")

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Hi there, 👋

Thank you very much for your topic! It may take a little while before Katalon team member or others forum members respond to you.

In the meantime, you can _double-check_ your post to see if you can add any extra information i.e. error logs, HTML codes, screenshots, etc. Check out **[this posting guide](http://forum.katalon.com/t/tip-how-to-help-us-help-you/12919)** to **help us help you better!**

Thanks! 🕶  
Katalon Community team

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**Author:** ![Elly\_Tran](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/elly_tran/32/21874_2.png) [@Elly\_Tran](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Elly_Tran)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/3 "2024-09-18T02:49:21Z")

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Hi @newyorktominnesota,

Welcome to our community. Looking forward to hearing from the experienced to support this case

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**Author:** ![dineshh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/dineshh/32/24488_2.png) [@dineshh](https://forum.katalon.com/u/dineshh)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/4 "2024-09-18T05:18:48Z")

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does POST call working locally?

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**Author:** ![dineshh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/dineshh/32/24488_2.png) [@dineshh](https://forum.katalon.com/u/dineshh)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/5 "2024-09-18T05:20:07Z")

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have you added all required headers and tokens to authenticate and authorise the POST call?

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**Author:** ![newyorktominnesota](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/newyorktominnesota/32/23869_2.png) [@newyorktominnesota](https://forum.katalon.com/u/newyorktominnesota)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/6 "2024-09-19T10:35:08Z")

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I have added bunch of print statements to make sure it prints out the important info e.g. token, http req etc.

```auto
2024-09-19 00:46:45.499 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - --------------------
2024-09-19 00:46:45.502 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - START Test Cases/Test
2024-09-19 00:46:45.831 DEBUG testcase.Test - 1: salesforceAPI.CRUDOperation.createLead()

Access Token: 	
00D5Bfn1H8zfO7HggXaSFemI43p!ARQAQJLATkCNoYagshYchoz9UFqfHjpycDF4Dri9vW7ARUi667r9B447Mro9O.HH_sWGAnRngty5Bfn1H8zfO7HggX_mkmKE
Lead Data: 	
[Company:Somoto, Email:John.Zolensky@icbm.com, FirstName:John, State:Illinois, Phone:3134520098, PostalCode:61616, Title:Developer, Website:www.icbm.com, Street:9873 N Pima Rd, LastName:Zolensky, City:Chicago, MobilePhone:1773219087]

Entity Message: 	
[Content-Type: application/json,Content-Length: 233,Chunked: false]

HTTP Request: 	
POST https://playful-otter-1o15gi-dev-ed.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v49.0/sobjects/Lead HTTP/1.1

Response Status line :HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
HTTP status : 401
2024-09-19 00:46:48.485 INFO k.k.c.m.CustomKeywordDelegatingMetaClass - salesforceAPI.CRUDOperation.createLead is PASSED
2024-09-19 00:46:48.498 INFO c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor - END Test Cases/Test

```

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**Author:** ![dineshh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/dineshh/32/24488_2.png) [@dineshh](https://forum.katalon.com/u/dineshh)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/7 "2024-09-20T07:56:44Z")

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is it failing only with katalon API tests?

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**Author:** ![dineshh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/dineshh/32/24488_2.png) [@dineshh](https://forum.katalon.com/u/dineshh)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/8 "2024-09-20T07:56:59Z")

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can you try with postman or curl commands?

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**Author:** ![dineshh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/dineshh/32/24488_2.png) [@dineshh](https://forum.katalon.com/u/dineshh)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/401-unauthorize-status-response-on-rest-api-post-call/146707/9 "2024-09-20T08:00:54Z")

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> [@newyorktominnesota](#):
>
> ```auto
> Response Status line :HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
> HTTP status : 401
> 
> ```

Authorization error… can you check you swagger or API docs about API specifications