Greetings Julia:
There is a limited set of fields you can request for an out of network profile. If you call for a field you can't get you may get the 401 error. Try reducing the number of fields requested and see if you get rid of the error.
Thanks
Steve

Hey Julia:
Are you using the python library found on this page?
https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/libraries-and-tools

Beyond my level of expertise - sending on to our Python experts

Can you provide the following so we can help troubleshoot:
* Original request to get the profile ID and auth headers
* The full response for that (including the auth info)
* Subsequent request using the auth info, including all headers
* Full response (including headers) from the server

You can get this using Fiddler or HttpScoop using the strategies on Debugging API Calls

Note that we suggest a particular oauth library (in this case python's oauth2) because it's known to work correctly and there are edge cases (this may be one) where other libraries may fail to sign or pass along requests correctly. That having been said, I should be able to make a correct call using oauth2 and compare it if you provide the above.

I'm not sure why your call is failing. Here's the sequence using the tested oauth2 library in python, including the entire HTTP conversation.

First, do the search:
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people-search:(people:(distance,id,first-name,last-name,headline,api-standard-profile-request))

Parameters (I'm using OAuth in the parameters for this call)
oauth_body_hash=2jmj7l5rSw0yVb%2FvlWAYkK%2FYBwk%3D
oauth_nonce=41358038
oauth_timestamp=1330098205
oauth_consumer_key=xxx
oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1
facet=network%2CO
oauth_version=1.0
oauth_token=xxx
keywords=Schneider+Electric
oauth_signature=xxx

Response includes:

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   <person>
      <distance>-1</distance>
      <id>UBAQYFeiHo</id>
      <first-name></first-name>
      <last-name>Private</last-name>
      <headline>Assistant Engineer at Schneider Electric</headline>
      <api-standard-profile-request>
        <url>http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/UBAQYFeiHo</url>
        <headers total="1">
          <http-header>
            <name>x-li-auth-token</name>
            <value>OUT_OF_NETWORK:wHti</value>
          </http-header>
        </headers>
      </api-standard-profile-request>
    </person>

Second call, to get the profile:
http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/UBAQYFeiHo:(id,first-name,last-name)

Request headers:
Host: api.linkedin.com
x-li-auth-token: OUT_OF_NETWORK:wHti
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
user-agent: Python-httplib2/$Rev$

Response:
{'status': '200', 'content-length': '158', 'content-location': u'http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/UBAQYFeiHo:(id,first-name,last-name)?oauth_body_hash=2jmj7l5rSw0yVb%2FvlWAYkK%2FYBwk%3D&oauth_nonce=27886786&oauth_timestamp=1330098212&oauth_consumer_key=xxx&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_token=xxx&oauth_signature=xxx', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'vary': '*', 'server': 'Apache-Coyote/1.1', '-content-encoding': 'gzip', 'date': 'Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:43:34 GMT', 'x-li-request-id': 'N368G241EA', 'x-li-format': 'xml', 'content-type': 'text/xml;charset=UTF-8'}

The python code to make the second part work with the oauth2 library is:

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import oauth2 as oauth
import time
 
url = "http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/UBAQYFeiHo:(id,first-name,last-name)"
consumer = oauth.Consumer(
        key="xxx",
        secret="xxx")
        
token = oauth.Token(
        key="xxx", 
        secret="xxx")
 
client = oauth.Client(consumer, token)
 
resp, content = client.request(url, headers={'x-li-auth-token':'OUT_OF_NETWORK:wHti'})
print resp
print content

Hi,

I tried doing the same thing that has been done above using the httplib2 library:

mport httplib2
http = httplib2.Http()

url = 'http://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/UBAQYFeiHo'

import urllib
params = None

response, content = http.request(url, 'GET', params,
headers={'x-li-auth-token': 'OUT_OF_NETWORK:wHti'}
)

print response
print content

I get this in return:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<error>
<status>401</status>
<timestamp>1330214399769</timestamp>
<request-id>QXG9EBADPP</request-id>
<error-code>0</error-code>
<message>Unknown authentication scheme</message>
</error>

Is the oauth2 library you are using doing something in particular for this api to access OON profiles?

Thanks so much!!!!

Kd

Karthik,

Our API uses OAuth. httplib2 does not create the correct headers to sign the request for oauth. You need to use an oauth library to sign your requests or they will not be authorized for our system. I encourage you to work through the Quick Start Guide to learn how to make requests using our API.

Hi,

i have got the following error when send invitation using php
==============================================
when i try to search api after send invitation

<error>
<status>403</status>
<timestamp>1330485320800</timestamp>
<request-id>VBWC3KKAWB</request-id>
<error-code>0</error-code>
<message>Bad authorization token</message>
</error>

Hi Julia,

Great! Thanks for taking the time to post back and let us know it's now working for you. :)

-Jeremy