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I'm using Salesforce developer account and trying to obtain OAuth access token using curl and it returns 500 Server Error giving the message specified in [1].

Used curl command is curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -H "X-PrettyPrint:1" -d "grant_type=password&client_id=<C_ID>&client_secret=<SECRET>&username=<UN>&password=<PW>" https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token

What i conclude is, this happens because of mis-configuring Callback URL of OAuth app configurations. I cannot understand what would be intended value for that because i dont have any URL to redirect.

I have tried configuring https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/success as the Callback URL value and had no luck.

What would be the use of Callback URL setting to https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/success or what is the correct way of getting access token using curl?

Thanks in advance.

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First you need to create a remote Application .

Setup -->Create --> App-->Connected Apps-->Fill The Necessary Details --> mention CallBackURL as https://ap1.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token ,Callback URL in salesforce is nothing but what Salesforce will callback with once the user authorizes access to his/her Salesforce account. Provide callback url as https://ap1.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token

After Saving the Application you'll have the customerid and CustomerKey .

curl --form client_id=your customer key --form client_secret=your sceret key --form grant_type=password --form username=123@force.com --form password=your password+Security -k https://ap1.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/token

After Executing This Command

PS : If you have trouble to find security token, refer http://boards.developerforce.com/t5/APIs-and-Integration/Having-trouble-getting-Access-Token-with-username-password/td-p/278305

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  • Thanks Vineeth this helped me to get access token. I have used the curl command mentioned in the question to get access token from a another domain. So that the command is valid, but i don't have permission to view configuration of the application to lookup how did it configured. Wonder how does that worked. And i would like to know is there any valid use case for using login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/success as the callback uri which is asked as the title? Thanks a lot
    – DarRay
    Nov 12 '13 at 13:15
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    @DarRay - login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/success is used with the user-agent profile for mobile apps. The app displays a WebView for the OAuth login URL, and registers a handler for the URL change event. When the URL changes to login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/success, the handler knows the OAuth process is complete and can read the token etc from the hash fragment. See wiki.developerforce.com/page/Digging_Deeper_into_OAuth_2.0_on_Force.com for much more.
    – metadaddy
    Nov 12 '13 at 19:26
  • Got the idea. Thanks Vineeth for the clarification.
    – DarRay
    Nov 13 '13 at 4:48

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