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Default Accept/Reject URLs in User Token Flow are Changing

As of the end of September 23, the default Accept/Reject URLs used in the User-Token generation flow will change. Accept/Reject URLs indicate where the user should go after they consent to, or cancel User-Token generation. eBay provides default values, or you can create your own.

In most cases, changing the default Accept/Reject URL values should not impact your application. If you have hard-coded the original default URLs in your application, you may no longer be able to generate new User Tokens.

As a general best practice, we recommend not hard-coding values in your application that you can get programmatically.

These are the deprecated URLs:

Deprecated Accept URL:https://arribada.ebay.com/aw-secure/auth_auth_thanks.html
Deprecated Reject URL:https://arribada.ebay.com/aw-secure/auth_auth_cancel.html

These are the new URLs:

New Accept URL:https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ThirdPartyAuthSucessFailure&isAuthSuccessful=true
New Reject URL:https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ThirdPartyAuthSucessFailure

This applies only to APIs that require tokens like the Trading API, and only if you've hard-coded the original values. Users of non-token APIs like the Finding API will not need to make changes.

For more information, check out our guidelines on using tokens: Getting Tokens for Applications with Multiple Users.

September 17, 2010 | Permalink