View source for ansible fiortios api login failure

fortios version: 7.4.5 

error(from ansible): ansible.module_utils.connection.ConnectionError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

description: login with access_token failing from ansible to fortios. logging in with same token via curl is working.

solution:

check the following setting

 foritos # show full-configuration | grep rest-api-key-url-query
    set rest-api-key-url-query disabled

if disabled then do...

 foritos # config system global
 foritos (global) # set rest-api-key-url-query enable
 foritos (global) # end
 
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