Can't access FireBase Database via HTTP/REST error 403 Forbidden

Question

Swift + Vapor framework for server + Xcode 8.1

I am trying to read Firebase Realtime Database making HTTP requests to my DB, but I get permission denied.

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Answer 1

TLDR; Try placing auth= in your query string instead of using the authorization header.

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The Firebase documentation is unclear on how this works. According to the documentation, there are three methods that should work.

1. auth= in query string (link)
2. access_token= in query string (link)
3. Authorization: Bearer in request header (link)

I'm not convinced that all three methods do actually work however. I'm using method 1 in my application, so I know that one works for sure.