INPUT_VALIDATION_ERROR Error Code while trying to Logic

[David Sutcliffe]

Hello I am trying to login with Curl Using PHP. I have used Betfair Interactive Login API. But as a response I get Following response.
{
token: "",
product: "MY_KEY_VALUE",
status: "FAIL",
error: "INPUT_VALIDATION_ERROR"
}
Please help me out of this problem.

[betdynamics]

Most likely you have a password that contains certain punctuation characters (like #)

[David Sutcliffe]

Php Login

Hello,

I am trying to login betfair using php.when i execute the program with login url :- https://identitysso.betfair.com/api/login.

The api response with below message.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 90 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:56:39 GMT

{"token":"","product":"ZRStFMlXRaFXeDsw","status": "FAIL","error":"INPUT_VALIDATION_ERROR"}

Also check password that can not contains certain punctuation characters (like #).

Please guide me.how to resolve problem.

Please find the below Php Code which i used for login.

$appKey="";
$data = array('username'=>urlencode(''),'password'=>urlenc ode(''));
$data_json = json_encode($data);
$url="https://identitysso.betfair.com/api/login";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,
array('Accept: application/json','X-Application:'.$appKey,'Content-Type: application/json'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data_json);
//$result = curl_exec($ch);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo $response;
curl_close($ch);

[David Sutcliffe]

Hello,

Please do the needful as soon as possible.

Thanks

[Merlin]

Hi David,
have you tried passing the username and password as plain strings, rather than urlencoding them first? You have already set the Content-Type to 'application/json', so as long as the body is valid json, it should take anything alphanumeric or any of the following punctuation marks

$!?()*+,:;=@_./-[]{}

without needing to urlencode them.
I'm not sure that this is the problem, though, as I would expect this to produce a, 'INVALID_USERNAME_OR_PASSWORD' error rather than an 'INPUT_VALIDATION_ERROR'. Those usually happen if you mis-spell or wrongly capitalise a parameter name, and yours look ok (don't know any PHP, so I can't comment on your code)

Cheers
Merlin

[ChubbyChaser]

David,

Did you manage to resolve this issue? I am having the exact same problem.

The strange thing is that when I run curl from the command line it works ok. So I assuming the problem is with the php code.

[Anderson Oliveira]

I am having the exact same problem in Angular (JavaScript)

[jabe]

I can't see your code from here.

[rye]

Hello I am trying to login with Curl Using PHP. I have used Betfair Interactive Login API. But as a response I get Following response.
{
token: "",
product: "MY_KEY_VALUE",
status: "FAIL",
error: "INPUT_VALIDATION_ERROR"
}
Please help me out of this problem.

Because the password contains special symbols, PHP uses the rawurlencode() function to escape the password and then sends it, so you can log in normally.