# Not able to delete a decision with an API (cookie-token is missing)
**URL:** https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/not-able-to-delete-a-decision-with-an-api-cookie-token-is-missing/985
**Category:** crowdsec
**Created:** [October 12, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/not-able-to-delete-a-decision-with-an-api-cookie-token-is-missing/985 "2022-10-12T21:13:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ayucel](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/ayucel)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/not-able-to-delete-a-decision-with-an-api-cookie-token-is-missing/985/1 "2022-10-12T21:13:41Z")
Hello there, I’ve been trying to delete the decisions via API, but it seems like I’m missing a cookie-token.
Here’s the output that I get:
{“code”:401,“message”:“cookie token is empty”}
As well as I’ve noticed in the [Swagger UI](https://crowdsecurity.github.io/api_doc/index.html?urls.primaryName=LAPI#/) it mentions that “Delete decision for given ban ID (only from cscli)”. So I’m wondering if we’re not able to delete decisions from an HTTP API call?
Thank you.
---
### Author:  [@iiAmLoz](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/iiAmLoz)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2022, 8:41am UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/not-able-to-delete-a-decision-with-an-api-cookie-token-is-missing/985/2 "2022-10-14T08:41:30Z")
You can delete via the API, however, you need to pass a JWT token as the header that you get from sending valid credentials to `/v1/watchers/login`. So the flow is
`POST /v1/watchers/login` → Set `Authorization: Bearer ${jwt}` → Send `DELETE /v1/decisions/${ID}`
---
### Author:  [@iiAmLoz](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/iiAmLoz)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/not-able-to-delete-a-decision-with-an-api-cookie-token-is-missing/985/3 "2022-10-14T08:45:06Z")
For more information the `cscli` command interacts with crowdsec over the http API. If you need to know where the valid credentials are for your machine the local api is stored `/etc/crowdsec/local_api_credentials.yaml`
---
### Author:  [@ayucel](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/u/ayucel)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.crowdsec.net/t/not-able-to-delete-a-decision-with-an-api-cookie-token-is-missing/985/4 "2022-10-14T18:15:07Z")
Thank you, much appreciated.