A 401 appears when trying to use the example API call

[blairg23]

As far as I can tell, there's no way to authenticate into the website when visiting http://omdbapi.com, yet when trying to use the example, it sends the following request:

http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt0108941&apikey=PlsBanMe

which results in a 401 and the following response message:

{"Response":"False","Error":"Request limit reached!"}

Side note: I have paid for an API key.

See screenshot for detail from UI:

[omdbapi]

The actual issue is it's not returning a proper 403 error when the request limit is reached.

[blairg23]

When someone is using the example api calls from the website, should they ever receive this? For me it was after 2 example calls. The point of a sandbox is to allow the user to see examples...?

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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 11:40 PM Brian Fritz ***@***.***> wrote: The actual issue is it's not returning a proper 403 error when the request limit is reached. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#55 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AF7_ZIgEy4f1X6_mWkiXDUcYWOgJ8Gb_ks5toDo5gaJpZM4Sr0jA> .

[blairg23]

This is still a valid issue. I tried to use the example API call for the first time today and got this message:

Upon clicking the link, I get this:

Yet there is no way to enter credentials or an API key in the example UI, so this is a really bad UX issue.