Re: Debug file error 400 using HTTPAPI

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Worth,

HTTP only provides a channel of communication.  Different programmers 
can (and will) use that channel of communication differently.  HTTPAPI 
strives to provide a basic set of tools to help you write software that 
can participate in conversations using HTTP communication.

Why am I saying this?

The key bit is:  Different programmers can/will use that channel of 
communication differently.

HTTPAPI is enabling you to communicate with an HTTP server, and that 
server wants you to send a userid and password.  Great.  How should that 
userid/password be sent?

Here are some ways that I've experienced:

1) Using HTTP's www-authenticate mechanism with BASIC auth.
2) Using HTTP's www-authetnicate with other auth schemes.
3) Using SOAP headers
4) Using SOAP parameters
5) Using html form data (what you're trying) via POST
6) Using html form data via GET
7) Using plain XML (POX) in attributes or elements
8) Using digital keys

Are these the only possibilities? No. There are many possibilities.  To 
understand which one you need to use, you need to understand the server 
application. They are all different! We do not understand your server 
application. How could we?

So...  you need to know and understand how data must be sent to the 
server.  If you can explain that part to us, then we might be able to 
tell you how you can use HTTPAPI to accomplish your task.


On 6/2/2011 1:10 PM, Holmes, Worth wrote:
>
>     The target URL indicates that the userid&  password was not sent, but
>     my debug log shows it was.
>
>
>     Is there something I need to tell the target URL to do in order to
>     accept my post?
>
>
>     Below is part of the debug log (user&  password scrubbed):
>
>
>     recvresp(): entered
>
>     SetError() #43: CommTCP_read: No 100-Continue (error ignored)
>
>     senddoc(): entered
>
>     id=########++&password=pppppppppp+++&level=full&vinlist=1D7HA18N18J142
>     004
>
>     recvresp(): entered
>
>     HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
>
>
>     Attached is the complete log.
>
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