diff --git a/src/main/kotlin/de/fraunhofer/iem/dataprovider/repository/service/RepositoryService.kt b/src/main/kotlin/de/fraunhofer/iem/dataprovider/repository/service/RepositoryService.kt
index 6ef6dc452edb27604c18db406826c681187cc2ac..12059bbeb6387cd6ffadf784bc6cafc71d95b75f 100644
--- a/src/main/kotlin/de/fraunhofer/iem/dataprovider/repository/service/RepositoryService.kt
+++ b/src/main/kotlin/de/fraunhofer/iem/dataprovider/repository/service/RepositoryService.kt
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import de.fraunhofer.iem.dataprovider.repository.repository.RepositoryRepository
 import de.fraunhofer.iem.dataprovider.utilities.HttpClientWrapper
 import io.ktor.client.call.*
 import io.ktor.client.request.*
+import io.ktor.http.*
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Service
 import java.util.*
 
@@ -79,14 +80,15 @@ class RepositoryService(
     }
 
     suspend fun validateUser(validateUserDto: ValidateUserDto) {
-        val userCookie = httpClient.get(getAuthApiPath(validateUserDto))
+        val userCookie = httpClient.get(openCodeApiProperties.auth) {
+            url {
+                appendPathSegments(validateUserDto.b)
+                parameters.append("apiKey", openCodeApiProperties.authApiKey)
+            }
+        }
         println(userCookie)
         println(userCookie.headers)
         println(userCookie.body<Any>())
     }
 
-    private fun getAuthApiPath(validateUserDto: ValidateUserDto): String {
-        return "${openCodeApiProperties.auth}${validateUserDto.b}?apiKey=${openCodeApiProperties.authApiKey}"
-    }
-
 }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/application-dev.properties b/src/main/resources/application-dev.properties
index 4c48b1e4807a415ae318bccc54cd67daa4ae5b3f..f9d08a89c818075b0527fdf54ec1f132fff43fbf 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/application-dev.properties
+++ b/src/main/resources/application-dev.properties
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ opencode.user-name=${OC_GL_USER:}
 # Tool APIs
 opencode.api.base-path=https://sl.dev.o4oe.de/api/v1/project/
 opencode.api.ort=/cve-result
-opencode.api.auth=https://sl.dev.o4oe.de/api/receive-session/
+opencode.api.auth=https://sl.dev.o4oe.de/api/receive-session
 opencode.api.auth-api-key=${AUTH_API_KEY}
 
 # API key to access this server's API