Getting STRONG_AUTH_CODE_REQUIRED when trying to create a login

[Jake]

Trying to login to create a session token, but I'm getting this error back:

"status":"LOGIN_RESTRICTED","error":"STRONG_AUTH_CODE_REQUIRED"

It might be due to me having a two factor authentication - would this affect the login via the API?

This is the PHP cURL function I'm using:

public function initiate_login()
    {

        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://identitysso.betfair.com/api/login');
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "username={$username}&password={$password}");
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

        $headers = array();
        $headers[] = 'Accept: application/json';
        $headers[] = 'X-Application: '.$app_id;
        $headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded';
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

        $result = curl_exec($ch);
        if (curl_errno($ch)) {
            echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
        } else {
            print_r( $result );
        }
        curl_close($ch);
    } 

Any help from previous experiences with this error would be awesome!
TIA - Jake

[Generalizing]

Hey Jake,

Don't know if you managed to fix it from your end, cause I can see its been quite a while.

Issue is actually explained here: https://docs.developer.betfair.com/d...op+Application

In a nutshell, all you need to do is put the 2-step code at the end of your password in code and should work.

Igor

[RogerMoore]

The above comment is good for user interaction. I found this post via trying non-user interaction, cert based auth is the answer for this. API-NG API