Andy, the length of this message is 205, I would put
the contents in a StringBuffer or String, then get the
length, use this variable in the "Content-lengh" field
of the header.

thanks
Joel


--- andy_kishore <andy_kishore@...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is what my request looks like:
>
> // THIS IS WHERE I'M SETTING THE HEADERS
> con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","text/xml");
> con.setRequestProperty("Host","rpc.weblogs.com");
> con.setRequestProperty("Content-length","250");
> con.setRequestMethod("POST");
>
> // THIS IS MY XML-RPC REQUEST
> writer.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>");
> writer.write("<methodCall>");
>
writer.write("<methodName>weblogUpdates.ping</methodName>");
> writer.write("<params>");
> writer.write("<param>");
> writer.write("<value>Scripting News</value>");
> writer.write("</param>");
> writer.write("<param>");
>
writer.write("<value>http://www.scripting.com/</value>");
> writer.write("</param>");
> writer.write("</params>");
> writer.write("</methodCall>");
>
> --- In weblogs-com@yahoogroups.com, Joel Nylund
> <jnylund@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Andy, can you post the exact request you are
> sending,
> > typically I have seen this error when you send the
> > wrong content length (are you sure the length is
> 250?)
> > thanks
> > Joel
> >
>
>
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