Eloqua Product Notice: OAuth token endpoint – More detailed 401 response (Aug 2021)
Overview
With the arrival of Eloqua release 21C (Aug 2021), the OAuth token endpoint, https://login.eloqua.com/auth/oauth2/token, will return a more detailed 401 response.
What’s changing?
Currently, when the OAuth token endpoint returns a “401 Unauthorized” error there is little detail provided.
With 21C, with a status of “401 Unauthorized” the response body will now include the following:
- error
- error_code
- error_description
The error is the name of the error type, the error_code is the numeric value uniquely identifying the type of error, and the error_description provides details on the error.
Errors have been divided into categories indicated by the 1000s digit of the
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