Hi Jai, please try with
identity=tenantname:user credential=api_key Notice, you'll probably need to point at something like https://<locationId>.objectstorage.softlayer.net/auth/v1.0 where locationId is something like `ams01` or `dal01` Best, Andrea On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Jai M <jaiganes...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using the openstack-swift api to interact with SoftLayer Object > storage. However the authentication is failing. > > I see the payload for the POST request to get the token is in the below > format > > "{"auth":{"passwordCredentials":{"username":"USERID","password":"API_KEY"},"tenantName":"ACC-278436-15"}}" > > This does not work for SL. The SL spec requires it to be a GET with headers > > "X-Auth-User: ACC-278436-15:USERID" > "X-Auth-Key: API_KEY" > > Is there a way I can switch/plugin a different authentication mechanism for > SoftLayer or should I use the blobstore api directly instead of swift api ? > > Let me know. > > Rgds > Jai > >