Unable to connect to Bitcoind [regtest] with curl

[decent1984]

Hi There,

This is my bitcoin.conf:

Code:

[regtest]
rpcuser=bitcoin
rpcpassword=talk

Running the below command gives me the suitable curl equivalent:

Code:

 ./bitcoin-cli -regtest help getbalances

Code:

Examples:
> bitcoin-cli getbalances 
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "getbalances", "params": []}' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Now, when I run the above curl command, I get a non response like this:

Code:

~/Desktop/bitcoin-0.21.1/bin  curl --user bitcoin --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getnewaddress", "params": [] }'  -H 'content-type: text/plain;'  http://127.0.0.1:18443
Enter host password for user 'bitcoin':

                                                                                                                                                                  
 ~/Desktop/bitcoin-0.21.1/bin 

Any idea on what is causing the refusal of the connection? I am running Mac and can see port 18443 taking connections

Thanks again.

[decent1984]

Sorry about this, I changed the username to include the password like this username:password and now it works!

[NotATether]

Sorry about this, I changed the username to include the password like this username:password and now it works!

Basically, you always have to use --user username:password format when making a JSON-RPC request to bitcoind, otherwise, you will get a 401 Unauthorized error from it because it wants you to input the password using the Authorization header. Also see the results in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/search?q=HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED.