Title: Issue with scope/authentication
Last modified: July 30, 2018

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# Issue with scope/authentication

 *  Resolved [Robert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/metbril/)
 * (@metbril)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-scope-authentication/)
 * I have tried to create a new post with both [https://micropublish.net/new](https://micropublish.net/new)
   and [https://quill.p3k.io/new](https://quill.p3k.io/new) but they seem to fail.
 * Both services could authenticate just fine.
 * Quill says:
 * > Your endpoint did not return a Location header.
   >  See Creating a Micropub Endpoint
   > for more information.
 * \`
    HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:53:34 GMT Server: Apache
   Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate,
   max-age=0 Link: <[https://test-wp.robertvanbregt.nl/wp-json/indieauth/1.0/token&gt](https://test-wp.robertvanbregt.nl/wp-json/indieauth/1.0/token&gt);;
   rel=”token_endpoint”, <[https://test-wp.robertvanbregt.nl/wp/?micropub=endpoint&gt](https://test-wp.robertvanbregt.nl/wp/?micropub=endpoint&gt);;
   rel=”micropub”, <[https://test-wp.robertvanbregt.nl/wp-json/webmention/1.0/endpoint&gt](https://test-wp.robertvanbregt.nl/wp-json/webmention/1.0/endpoint&gt);;
   rel=”webmention”, <[https://test-wp.robertvanbregt.nl/wp-json/webmention/1.0/endpoint&gt](https://test-wp.robertvanbregt.nl/wp-json/webmention/1.0/endpoint&gt);;
   rel=”[http://webmention.org/&#8221](http://webmention.org/&#8221); Strict-Transport-
   Security: max-age=300; includeSubdomains; Vary: User-Agent Upgrade: h2c Connection:
   Upgrade Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: application/json
 * {“error”:”insufficient_scope”,”error_description”:”scope insufficient to create
   posts”}
    `

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 *  Thread Starter [Robert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/metbril/)
 * (@metbril)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-scope-authentication/#post-10539173)
 * Some additional info. With [https://micropublish.net/new](https://micropublish.net/new)
   I first logged in with full access. That failed. When I login with “post” access
   only, I succeeded. The authorization returned does not use spaces (” “) as separator,
   but the encoded “%20” instead. Perhaps this is creating the problem?
 *  Plugin Author [Ryan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snarfed/)
 * (@snarfed)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-scope-authentication/#post-10540600)
 * ugh. sorry for the trouble! hey [@dshanske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dshanske/),
   any ideas? more importantly, would you mind writing up a blog post with the common
   causes and solutions you’ve seen so far?
 *  Thread Starter [Robert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/metbril/)
 * (@metbril)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-scope-authentication/#post-10540774)
 * I tried to re-authorize with [https://quill.p3k.io/new](https://quill.p3k.io/new)
   and use the ‘create’ scope instead of ‘create update’ I did earlier. The ‘create’
   scope worked as well, so I’m almost certain is has to do with the double scopes
   and spaces.
 *  Plugin Author [David Shanske](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dshanske/)
 * (@dshanske)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-scope-authentication/#post-10545849)
 * This is an IndieAuth bug introduced in the last update, not a Micropub bug. I’m
   going to see about pushing the fix. The PR was merged a few days ago.
 *  Thread Starter [Robert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/metbril/)
 * (@metbril)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-scope-authentication/#post-10546360)
 * I have updated the IndieAuth plugin and re-authenticated with Quill and create
   +update is now working. Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-scope-authentication/#post-10546360)
 * Status: resolved