Trouble with UsingBasicAuthentication in Post

Posted by Rod Anderson on 07-Aug-2017 10:02

I'm new to the http client so this may be a stupid question but I can get UsingBasicAuthentication() to work with a Get Request:

httpClient  = ClientBuilder:Build()
                :Client.

// Create credentials
creds = new Credentials('smisdev.myDomain.com', 'XCDS', 'abc123').
 
req = RequestBuilder:Get('smisdev.myDomain.com/.../XCDS')
        :UsingBasicAuthentication(creds)
        :Request.

resp = httpClient:Execute(req).

But I need to perform a POST request with

UsingBasicAuthentication(creds) and an empty body.   No matter what I try I can't seem to get it to work.  Thoughts?

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Posted by Peter Judge on 07-Aug-2017 11:24

Basically you need to cheat a little (and add/and remove the body).

httpClient = ClientBuilder:Build():Client.

emptyReq = RequestBuilder:Post('http://httpbin.org/post', String:Empty())

:Request.

// Remove the entity (since there's a bug preventing it from being used)

emptyReq:Entity = ?.

// Remove the auto-added ContentType value (from the RequestBuilder call)

emptyReq:RemoveHeader('Content-Type').

resp = httpClient:Execute(emptyReq).

Full code at github.com/.../post_empty_message.p

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