The question is not completely clear. You may need to post an [MCVE][1]. Your app code (and the API) appears to be working properly, you are getting an `access_token` in the body. And yes, the body is `text/plain` (transmitted via SSL). That is how it should be. The purpose of `x-www-form-urlencoded` is to package data in an unambiguous way that removes conflicts with the HTTP protocols (reserved characters, etc.). It is separate but: related to, more compact than, more strict than, and more specialized than HTML -- which is what the server uses to send back the response. Since a server's response to a form POST is expected to be valid HTML, there is no need for form or URL encoding. You can think of x-www-form-urlencoded as a kind of "micro format". [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve