Python -> auth0 from a k8s pod fails: how to diagnose and fix?

[william.moran]

My Python code is running in any one of a number of k8s pods. I’m seeing the error 403 Client Error: Forbidden for url: https://me.us.auth0.com/oauth/token I believe I have the correct IPs in the various “Allowed *” settings, but it would appear not. I can’t seem to find any way to debug this from the auth0 side, so I’m in the dark as to what I’ve got wrong. Are there debug logs that I’m not seeing? What is the debugging process?

[dan.woda]

Hi @william.moran,

This post goes over some of the reasons you might be seeing a 403 Forbidden.

"403: Forbidden" returned by /oauth/token

Hi @skot, Thank you for sending over the HAR file. After inspecting your HAR file closely, I found that it did not capture the events leading up to the request to /oauth/token where you observed the 403 Forbidden error. Generally, the 403 Forbidden error happens when the authorization code passed in the request is invalid, revoked, or expired. This is detailed in the RFC 6749 - The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework specification. Looking further, I found that you also received an “access_den…

If this doesn’t help to solve it, can you please provide an example of the outgoing request and response you are seeing? Sometimes there is more information with the response that could help to debug.