[GitHub API] Deprecation notice for authentication via URL query parameters

Ulrich Spörlein uqs at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 11 09:30:46 UTC 2020


On Fri, 2020-02-07 at 18:28:58 -0800, The FreeBSD Project wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> On February 8th, 2020 at 02:28 (UTC) your application (Portscout) used its `client_id` and `client_secret` (with the User-Agent portscout/0.8.1) as part of a set of query parameters to access an endpoint through the GitHub API:
> 
> https://api.github.com/repositories/1460612/releases/latest
> 
> Please use Basic Authentication instead as using OAuth credentials in query parameters has been deprecated and will be removed July 1st, 2020.
> 
> Depending on your API usage, we'll be sending you this email reminder at most once every 3 days.
> 
> Visit https://developer.github.com/changes/2019-11-05-deprecated-passwords-and-authorizations-api/#authenticating-using-query-parameters for more information.
> 
> Thanks,
> The GitHub Team

Could some kind soul forward that to whoever is running portscout please?

Thanks!
Uli 


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