# Device Auth API Post Help

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/device-auth-api-post-help/1486>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** api\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 11:55pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/device-auth-api-post-help/1486 "2020-01-30T23:55:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![mirzak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/mirzak/32/2056_2.png) [@mirzak](https://hub.mender.io/u/mirzak)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/device-auth-api-post-help/1486/2 "2020-01-31T09:20:34Z")

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This tutorial might be helpful,

> [@How to write a custom client interfacing a Mender server](https://hub.mender.io/t/how-to-write-a-custom-client-interfacing-a-mender-server/1353):
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> Introduction Mender is an end-to-end OTA solution and both the Mender [client](https://github.com/mendersoftware/mender) and [server](https://github.com/mendersoftware/integration) are provided as open-source, additional we provide reference board integrations that bind it all together. But Mender was designed with interchangeability in mind, especially for the client part of the solution. We provide [documentation](https://docs.mender.io/api/#device-apis) for the device facing API’s of the server which are implemented by the Mender client, but it is also a reference for implementing or integrating thirdparty clients. These re…

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