I have been trying to follow this page
v2-oauth2-auth-code-flow
using the Postman collection linked at the start of the page.
I am able to receive an authorization code from the api, but when attempting to get a token I receive the error: "AADSTS900144: The request body must contain the following parameter: 'grant_type'."
Other answers seem to point to this error being causes by either using json instead of urlencoding, or the 'grant_type' parameter being placed in the header instead of the body, but as far I can tell it is correct and placed in the body. I presume that this is formatted correctly since the collection is coming from Microsoft, is there any configuration I need to do in Postman beforehand or something else that seems off?
anonymous user
-1104 • Looking at the screenshot, I don't see any problem. Could you please check and confirm the below points:
Ideally, when you select
x-www-form-urlencoded
radio button in the Body section, it automatically sets the
Content-Type=x-www-form-urlencoded
under the Headers tab. Please make sure that it is added by clicking on hidden headers as highlighted below:
If the
Content-Type=x-www-form-urlencoded
header is not present, you need to add that manually.
If it is already there, click on bulk edit under the Body tab and make sure the Keys and Values are colon-separated. Paste the parameters in the notepad and confirm there are no garbage characters.
You can also use
form-data
instead of
x-www-form-urlencoded
- both works.
It must be due to an encoding issue or garbage character.
After re-installing Postman and deleting my collection, I continued to have the same problem. I then noticed an option within the
Configure New Token
section of the
Authorization
tab, inside of the
Client Authentication
drop-down. Changing the selection from
Send as Basic Auth header
to
Send client credentials in body
fixed the issue.
