Prestashop 1.7 Webservice Authetication Error

Question

In Prestashop 1.7 I'm trying to interact with webservice using prestapyt.

from prestapyt import PrestaShopWebServiceDict 
prestashop = PrestaShopWebServiceDict('http:\\hostname.ext\api', 'APIKEY')
ps = prestashop.search('addresses')

I get this error

prestapyt.prestapyt.PrestaShopAuthenticationError: 'Unauthorized'

To try to understand if is an error of the library, I've tryied to connect at the API via browser.

Connecting at http:\hostname.ext\api I get a login request.

Inserting in the username filed the APIKEY and leaving the password field blank as indicated here I get the Unauthorized error again.

The authetication works only setting the APIKEY as querystring

http:\\hostname.ext\api?&ws_key=APIKEY

But this method is not available in prestapyt that user session authetication.

There's some setting on Prestashop that I missed or a way to understand this problem?

Thank you

Answer 1

Found the problem and solved the case in this way.

The problem is not releted to Prestashop or prestapyt but relative to the server configuration (Apache + PHP).

Considering that in my case I'm working in a managed cloud service, I don't have in depth information about that.

But the result of this configuration is that the Authorization header does not appear in the $_SERVER variable. The same behavior reported here:

Why are $_SERVER[“PHP_AUTH_USER”] and $_SERVER[“PHP_AUTH_PW”] not set?

I solved adding this statement to the .htaccess file in my Prestashop installation:

SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1

As suggested here.

I hope to help others Prestashop users that incur in the same problem.