ColdFusion API Authentication Token Not Refreshing Automatically - Lucid Outsourcing Solutions

The integration runs flawlessly during the demo. Tokens authenticate cleanly. API calls succeed. Then an hour later, every call starts returning 401 Unauthorized. The integration sees the failure, refreshes the token, retries the call, and succeeds. The user experience is fine — but every hour, a brief window of failures occurs while the code reacts to expiration. Then twenty-four hours later, the failures stop being temporary. The refresh attempts also return 401. The refresh token expired. Users are silently logged out. The integration breaks completely until someone manually triggers re-authentication.

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