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Defect #33029

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API POST requests fail with 422 Can't verify CSRF token authenticity. on 3.4.13, 4.0.6 and 4.1.0

Added by casper nielsen almost 5 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
REST API
Target version:
-
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Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Resolution:
Invalid
Affected version:
4.1.0

Description

I have been tasked with making our main application work with a newer version of redmine than it did before.
The old one was ancient. Our current one is 3.4.13 in a docker container.

I have tried the latest three versions localhost. The behave the same in this regard:
When I make POST requests using HTTParty or even curl, I get a 422 response code with the message "Can't verify CSRF token authenticity"
This is my request:

HTTParty.post(
      "http://localhost:3000/issues.json&key=665f63b1c6a66a3a103207c59241ea9aefbe87c4",
      timeout: @options[:timeout],
      headers: {'Content-Type' => 'application/json'}, 
      body: somehash.to_json
    )

In the redmine source code ApplicationController it calls protect_from_forgery. I don't see any exceptions on this like I would expect with api-requests.
I thought CSRF protection was only meant for posted forms and the like. I may be wrong on that. How would I know what to send as a CSRF-token when making api-requests without prior requests?
I read the API reference. I didn't see anything on the matter.

What am I missing?

Another thing:
I have tried putting the key in the body with the json key "key" and as a header with the key name 'X-Redmine-API-Key' like specified. None of those are accepted it seems.
I can only make it accept the key if passed as a query parameter for some reason.

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