Handling "Missing Authentication Token" after setting up AWS Lambda with API Gateway - amazon-web-services

Here are the exact steps I just followed to setup a Lambda function behind and API Gateway.
1. Select blueprint
2. Add trigger
3. Configure
4. Create Role
5. Create Function
6. Congrats
7. Deploy API
However, when I visit the endpoint:
https://hq1hf4tmlf.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/prod/myLambda
I get the following error:
{
"message": "Missing Authentication Token"
}

The error you are getting is because the API key isn't included when you invoke the API through the URL alone.
With the way you currently have it set up, you would need to use something like python's requests package to call the API and invoke the lambda:
import requests
CustomHeader = {'x-api-key': YOUR_API_KEY}
Response = requests.get(YOUR_API_URL, headers=CustomHeader)
Or, you could go back into your API's configuration (under Your API/Resources/API Call/Method Request) and disable use of your API key for that call, but is a very insecure option.

You may want to check if you have a web security service or web filtering proxy installed on your device that might be stripping off JWT/auth tokens from requests going out of your work/home network. I had the same problem where I was getting “Missing Authentication token” error while trying to create a lambda function on my work laptop. After struggling for few hours, I switched on to my personal laptop and was able to create the lambda function successfully in the first attempt. I then tried again on my work laptop with fiddler turned on and noticed that even though the auth credentials were setup properly in my outbound request, I was still getting “x-amzn-ErrorType: MissingAuthenticationTokenException” from AWS in the response. I turned off the web security proxy service on my work laptop and I was able to create Lambda functions successfully. Hope it helps.

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Mapping request when Wrapping graphQL(appsync) with GET REST API using Amazon api gateway

I want to create a GET endpoint as a wrapper over an existing App Sync api for a specific query using AWS Service integration in API Gateway.
Eg. /employee/{id}/residenceCountry
In the mapping template I put the query as
{"query":"query MyQuery {getEmployeeDetails(id: \"$method.request.path.id\") {address {country}}}"}
However, I am getting a 500 Internal server error with no proper logs.
When I create a POST endpoint such that I pass the above body as request body to my rest api with passthrough, it works.
In the execution logs I see the exact same content for Endpoint request body after transformations:
In order to get the proper logs I tried getting $context.error.message and $context.integrationErrorMessage but I do not get any details.
Could someone please tell what I could be doing wrong or how to debug this better?
It turned out to be a very silly mistake of selecting App Sync as AWS Service in GET vs App Sync Data Plane in POST. It was only made apparent via another set of eyes. Thanks to my colleague Albert Hoxha.

How can I invoke the AWS API to PutItem into DynamoDB table via url?

So I am trying trying to execute a PutItem request from my AWS API Gateway. I am trying to do this by using the path /storeid/{username}/{password}. I have done the mapping as json and the test within the API works perfectly and I see my data show up in my DynamoDB table but when I deploy the API and try to invoke this request I receive the following response: {"message":"Missing Authentication Token"}. This request does not have any authorization or API key requirement. Why does the test work but not the url when invoked.
ps-yes I entered the correct url
Please help!
A few things to check
Verify that Authorization is set to None (i.e. not IAM) in your Method request settings.
Verify that you deployed your API changes to your stage. Using the console, click Actions -> Deploy API.
Once deployed the URL to use should be displayed when you select the Stage that you deployed to. Verify you are using the correct URL.
Also, side note, it is a really bad idea to be putting passwords in your URL path or query parameters. Consider doing sending the data in the request body as a POST and doing something like HTTPS and hashing to protect the password.

Google Admin SDK - watch users with Let's Encrypt secured endpoint

I'm doing PoC of some GSuite custom solution which needs to listen to changes on users resource. I've created a GSuite account, linked it (and verified) with mytestdomain.com. It's also verified in API console. Basically followed instructions from https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/guides/push
and fulfilled all requirements from there.
Unfortunately when I try to register my web hook I'm getting following error:
Watch request denied by backend [403]
Errors [
Message[Watch request denied by backend] Location[ - ] Reason[watchDenied] Domain[push]
]
I stuck with it and don't know where too look for more details about that error.
I'm using a certificate generated by Let's encrypt, but tested it with https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ and got rank A. How to check if Google API treats Let's Encrypt as trusted CA?
Problem wasn't anyhow related to Let's Encrypt certificates. They're working just fine with Google's push notifications. I've contacted with Google support and with their help I've established that sending a request with showDeleted parameter set to true was a root cause of above problem.
Support guy claimed that documentation was copied from list method and that parameter cannot be used with watch method and they're going to update docs of watch method in API reference. (However it's still there).

Missing Authentication Token while accessing API Gateway?

I am trying to call a Lambda Function through AWS API Gateway.
When I mention Authentication type NONE it works fine but API become public and anyone with url can access my API.
To make API call secure, I am using Authentication type AWS_IAM and
also attached AmazonAPIGatewayInvokeFullAccess policy to my user but getting this error:
{ message: "Missing Authentication Token"}
I don't know what I am missing here.
I've lost some time for a silly reason:
When you create a stage, the link displayed does not contain the resource part of the URL:
API URL:
https://1111.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev
API + RESOURCE URL
https://1111.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/get-list
The /get-list was missing
And of course, you need to check that the method configuration looks like this:
I think you are directly trying to access API link, this won't work because API is secured using IAM role and you must provide AWS authentication i.e Access key and Secret key.
Use the Postman Chrome extension to test your API:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/how-to-use-postman-to-call-api.html
I just had the same issue and it seems it also shows this message if the resource cannot be found.
In my case I had updated the API, but forgotten to redeploy. The issue was resolved after deploying the updated API to my stage.
Make sure you are clicking on the specific Resource first in the Stages tree, as that will populate a URL with the full path to the resource (rather than just the root path):
For other causes, see http://www.awslessons.com/2017/aws-api-gateway-missing-authentication-token/
Looks like (as of April 2019) AWS API Gateway throws this exception for a variety of reasons - mostly when you are hitting an endpoint that API Gateway is not able to reach, either because it is not deployed, or also in cases where that particular HTTP method is not supported.
I wish the gateway sends more appropriate error codes like HTTP 405 Method not supported or HTTP 404 not found, instead of a generic HTTP 403 Forbidden.
Found this in the docs:
If the AWS_IAM authorization were used, you would sign the request using the Signature Version 4 protocols.
Signing request with Signature Version 4
You can also generate an SDK for your API.
How to generate an SDK for an API in API Gateway
Once you've generated the SDK for the platform of your choice, step 6 mentions that if you're using AWS credentials, the request to the API will be signed:
To initialize the API Gateway-generated SDK with AWS credentials, use code similar to the following. If you use AWS credentials, all requests to the API will be signed. This means you must set the appropriate CORS Accept headers for each request:
var apigClient = apigClientFactory.newClient({
accessKey: 'ACCESS_KEY',
secretKey: 'SECRET_KEY',
});
I try all the above, if you did all steps in the above answers, and you not solve the problem, then:
on the left menu, hit the "Resources"
in the right to "Resources", hit the api method that you want to test, like "POST/GET etc)
hit the "ACTION" list (it's above to the API method in step 2
select "DEPLOY API" (please do it, even you already deploy yours api)
in "deployment stage" select "prod" or what ever you write in yours previous deploy (it will override yours previous deploy
hit deploy
I thing that because of, when I create the "METHOD REQUEST" (see step 2 how to go to this menu) , in "Authorization" I select "AWS_IAM"
after testing api, in aws test option, I try it in "postman"
then I understand the in "METHOD REQUEST" , in "Authorization", I should select "none"
I change it to none, but I thing the AWS, need to deploy it again, as I explain
Make sure you create Resource and then create method inside it. That was the issue for me. Thanks
In my case I missed adding '/' forward slash at the end of api.
Such a silly mistake.
https://le9dq5l9.execute-api.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/v1/putdoctorinfo/
If you enable AWS_IAM authentication you must sign your request with AWS credentials using AWS Signature Version 4.
Note: signing into the AWS console does not automatically sign your browser's requests to your API.
sometimes this message shown when you are calling a wrong api
check your api endpoint
In my case it was quite a stupid thing.
I've get used that new entities are created using POST and it was failing with "Missing Authentication Token". I've missed that for some reason it was defined as PUT which is working fine.
This error mostly come when you call wrong api end point.
Check your api end point that you are calling and verify this on api gateway.
If you are using an API with endpoint of type PRIVATE, be sure of:
You are invoking the API from within your AWS account (example: from an EC2 instance created in your account)
Put necessary credential (access and secret keys) in the EC2 instance in route ~/.aws/credentials (this route is for linux instances) If IAM user use MFA aws_session_token value will be required too.
Use vpce (vpc endpoint) based URL. Example: curl https://vpce-0c0471b7test-jkznizi5.execute-api.us-east-1.vpce.amazonaws.com/dev/api/v1/status
Your EC2 instance have a security group than allow outbound traffic to another security group owned by the vpce like:
Your vpce security group allow inbound traffic from another security group (previous sg from ec2 instance) owned by the EC2 instance like:
See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/apigateway-private-apis.html
I had the same problem which I solved the following way:
GET Method test
https://54wtstq8d2.execute-api.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/dev/echo/hello
Authorization tab ->
• select type(AWS signature)
• Add AccessKey and SecretKey
You must be using Invoke Url to trigger Lambda Function from your browser or POSTMAN... Instead, use the API end point which will be listed in:
select yourLambdaFuntion >> Configuration >> Triggers.
There you can see API end point.
For the record, if you wouldn't be using credentials, this error also shows when you are setting the request validator in your POST/PUT method to "validate body, query string parameters and HEADERS", or the other option "validate query string parameters and HEADERS"....in that case it will look for the credentials on the header and reject the request. To sum it up, if you don't intend to send credentials and want to keep it open you should not set that option in request validator(set it to either NONE or to validate body)
I had the same issue, and fixed it by removing the /dev/ and just put: https://1111.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/get-list
I had same issue today because I was using GET instead of POST. Fixed the issues by changing method to POST in postman.
First of all, check whether the API you created in the lamda function is registered with your AWS project or not. For that, go to the API gateway in your AWS console. If it is not registered, register it. This is the main cause of this issue.
You can even see in your aws.export.js file, that there are paths corresponding to your API ['/items'].
Your API must be present there, otherwise it will not append the security token to requests. Just register it in your project cloud-logic in your console for this.
If it's there, then use the above mentioned solution
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/how-to-use-postman-to-call-api.html
To contribute:
I had a similar error because my return response did not contain the 'body' like this:
return {
'statusCode': 200,
'body': "must contain the body tag if you replace it won't work"
}
If you set up an IAM role for your server that has the AmazonAPIGatewayInvokeFullAccess permission, you still need to pass headers on each request. You can do this in python with the aws-requests-auth library like so:
import requests
from aws_requests_auth.boto_utils import BotoAWSRequestsAuth
auth = BotoAWSRequestsAuth(
aws_host="API_ID.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com",
aws_region="us-east-1",
aws_service="execute-api"
)
response = requests.get("https://API_ID.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/STAGE/RESOURCE", auth=auth)
Well for anyone still having the problem and I really feel very dumb after realizing this, but I passed in the url of /items the default one while adding API. But I kept calling the endpoint with /api. Special thanks to Carlos Alberto Schneider, as I realized my problem after reading your post.
According to my experience, please check the following steps:
On API gateway side, make sure you add the correct path and publish the resource at the stage you want. For some url pattern like path parameter(/user/{user_id}) need more attention to have a check.
Make sure you configure the correct options method for this resource, because sometimes it is the CORS that cause this problem.
On Lambda side, make sure you specify the correct handler name as the entrypoint.
Please always check cloudwatch logs of your lambda that can help u identify the problems on your lambda side.
In my case I was trying to do an UPDATE type request but in my AWS SAM template I had a PATCH type request:
Resources:
LambdaFunction:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function # More info about Function Resource:
# https://github.com/awslabs/serverless-application-model/blob/master/versions/2016-10-31.md#awsserverlessfunction
Properties:
CodeUri: src/
Handler: app.lambda_handler
Runtime: python3.8
MemorySize: 128
Events:
UpdateItem:
Type: Api
Properties:
Path: /my-endpoint
Method: patch
Things to check:
1. In resources, check for Authorization and API Key if these are required.
2. Redeploy the API, new changes might not reflected.
3. Get the url from stages, directly by clicking on the actions like GET, POST, These will contain the full path urls.
I had the same issue even if my access was regional and not private, no authorization on my method neither API. It's turned out that I was calling the root endpoint "https://azerty.execute-api.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/dev/", which in local return me a json but raised an error. Be sure to call a proper endpoint, such as "https://azerty.execute-api.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com/dev/hello"

WSO2 APi Manager Response Code 0

I'm trying to use WSO2 API Manager 1.10.0 on an existent micro-services project with REST APIs following WSO2 tutorial.
I have installed it on my computer as well as a copy of my application and configured AM to manage requests (GET, POST and DELETE) to my resource but I always obtain a "Response code 0" with Response Header
{
"error": "no response from server"
}
Trying to contact my application using Advanced REST Client I obtain 200 with the correct result.
My APIs use a token inside the header to authenticate the user passed so I have implemented a dummy API without authentication but I still have the same issue.
I have tried also the Cloud version with our test server but still obtaining the same result.
I found this guide http://wso2.com/blogs/cloud/video-setting-up-custom-url-for-api-store-and-gateway/ but I don't know if this can be a solution for the problem in localhost.
Setting up the custom url in WSO2 API Cloud wont help. Thats there for a different purpose. There are two things you can do.
If you are interested in going ahead with the cloud version, you can get help from them. You can send a support request and the cloud team will help.
You can troubleshoot your local instance. When doing so, first, try to invoke your api via curl and see whether it gets a response. Sometime, your api can work fine, but due to some reasons, the result might not reach the api console.
If the curl works fine or not, you can check the logs to see whether there are any errors printed. Some more questions:
Is your backend service exposed via http or https?
If it is https, then if its certificate is not a CA signed one, API Manager will fail during the handshake. If so, you will have to add the cert to api managers client-truststore.jks
In the cloud scenario, your backend should be accessible from internet and the certificate story is valid for cloud too.
Are you trying to access the api using swagger console (or any web application). There are couple of reasons you could encounter this issue. one could be certificate not installed in the browser.
If this happens you should see some error log in the api manager console (something related to CA not found). for that first you can copy the backend url (swagger console shows the url it used to send the request) and paste it on a new browser window and install the certificate to the browser.
also you can get an idea about the issue by using a tool like firebug and check the request. (it will show the error for not connecting the AM)
Finally I have found the issue: the API Manager does not accept plain text response, responding using a JSON solves the problem.
Using other mediatype such as XML or TEXT/HTML it reports 406, with text plain it returns Error 0.