* Till <
klimpong@...> [20080113 15:24]:
> my request is versus
https://sandbox.plazes.com/sessions.xml
>
> This is what I get in response:
> <html>
> <head><title>411 Length Required</title></head>
> <body bgcolor="white">
> <center><h1>411 Length Required</h1></center>
> <hr><center>nginx/0.5.35</center>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Btw, it works when I issue the same via curl - I just have no idea
> what I need to supply in terms of "Length" here.
>
> Obviously the request is a "POST" and I am not sending a "body" along.
> I tried to send an empty body ('') - but that didn't help either. Is
> this anything you can do about this? I'm not too up to date on HTTP
> spec, but if Content-Length is absolutely required and not set - then
> I guess it's a bug somewhere else.
Your client needs to include this http header in the request:
Content-Length: 0
According to the http spec this header SHOULD be included in every
POST request - not sure what to do if the body is empty. It doesn't
make too much sense that rails on the server side is enforcing the
length requirement in that case in my opinion, but maybe there is a
good reason for this.
If you can't easily make your client library include the header, a
workaround may be to send some whitespace in the body, that would be
ignored by plazes. For example:
tils@tilsbox:~/lunch$ curl -v -u joe:secret -X POST
http://sandbox.plazes.com/sessions.xml -d ' '
* About to connect() to sandbox.plazes.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 78.46.49.103... connected
* Connected to sandbox.plazes.com (78.46.49.103) port 80 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'til'
> POST /sessions.xml HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic dGlsOmlnZ3U=
> User-Agent: curl/7.16.4 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.16.4
> OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.0
> Host: sandbox.plazes.com
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 1
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx/0.5.35
< Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:30:21 GMT
< Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8
< Connection: keep-alive
< Set-Cookie: _session_id=c157a5e7404fbc7437d0180572ab1168;
domain=.plazes.com; path=/
< Status: 200 OK
< Location:
http://sandbox.plazes.com/sessions/c157a5e7404fbc7437d0180572ab1168
< X-Runtime: 0.00678
< ETag: "7429055448796d66cd6881524b012eba"
< Cache-Control: private
< Content-Length: 168
< Expires: Wed, 25 Sep 1974 02:00:00 GMT
<
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<session>
<created_at type="datetime">2008-01-14T10:30:21Z</created_at>
<id>c157a5e7404fbc7437d0180572ab1168</id>
</session>
Til
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