Noob playing with the API, getting 401 Authorization Required

FlightAware AeroAPI
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I’m not a great programmer, and most of my experience using APIs is through webhooks in Zapier. I’m working on a little project to look up data about my past flights, and wanted to explore if I could use the V3 FlightXML API for my needs.

I figured I’d try to see if I could get it working just using https://www.hurl.it/ to begin with, but I’m having issues with the Auth.

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I’m using my site username and the V3 API key for the Basic Auth, and Hurl.it is sending it Base64 encoded, still I’m getting this response:

Accept-Ranges: bytes

Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true

Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

Access-Control-Max-Age: 1728000

Age: 0

Cache-Control: max-age=5, must-revalidate

Connection: keep-alive

Content-Encoding: gzip

Content-Length: 182

Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:08:35 GMT

Server: FlightAware/3.1

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000

Vary: Accept-Encoding

Via: 1.1 varnish

Www-Authenticate: Basic realm="FlightXML2"

X-Fa-Cache: MISS

X-Varnish: 520326335

BODY

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Authentication Required</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Authentication Required</h1>
  </body>
</html>

Any idea why it’s not working?

EDIT: Here’s the request being sent: http://c.thomas.do/r92M

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On the surface, it appears you are making a FlightXML2 call with a FlightXML3 Beta key. You should use the FlightXML3 Beta methods.

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Thanks @cbw, I’ll give that a shot.

I just copied the example from the v3 documentation:

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Is the v3 documentation not up to date?

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Those URLs should say /json/FlightXML3/METHODNAME instead. An update will be made to that page tomorrow.