Help with HTTP Post Request


#1

Running Webcore v0.3.10a

Im tearing my hair out (now bald :slight_smile: ) trying to figure out how to make a HTTP Post Request work. Getting unauthorized (or other errors depending on the variations I have tried) . All of this done on my local LAN … basically I am trying to have Webcore send some data to another device REST API (a raspberry) that uses an API Key for access.

This curl works as expected:

curl -X POST "http://10.0.0.23:8080/rest/items/SomeString" -H "accept: */*" -H "Content-Type: text/plain" -u oh.smartthings.rPYLEXSp0wWkPpwTJJtl8mph8hNI8hEkWvlBpQ2opV5vlGqVyM5uw21lzdP8fEzgGlQgWzDiqC6EePuu49A:

So I wrote the most basic webcore script I could:
execute
Make a POST request to http://10.0.0.23:8080/rest/items/SomeString as type text/plain;
Log info “{$httpStatusCode}”;
Log info “{$httpContentType}”;
Log info “{$response}”;
end execute;


And here is the resulting response:

5/21/2021, 1:54:21 PM +223ms
+1ms	â•”Received event [Elmwood].wc_async_reply = httpRequest with a delay of 0ms
+246ms	â•‘Runtime (39565 bytes) successfully initialized in 84ms (v0.3.10a.20190223) (244ms)
+246ms	â•‘â•”Execution stage started
+263ms	â•‘â•‘401
+264ms	â•‘â•‘Executed virtual command log (2ms)
+268ms	â•‘â•‘application/json
+270ms	â•‘â•‘Executed virtual command log (1ms)
+274ms	â•‘â•‘{"error":{"message":"Authentication required","http-code":401}}
+275ms	â•‘â•‘Executed virtual command log (1ms)
+278ms	â•‘â•šExecution stage complete. (32ms)
+279ms	â•šEvent processed successfully (279ms)

What could I be doing wrong here? Any guesses?


#2

Read the -u argument as username:password and either try writing the url as

http://username:[email protected]:8080/ ...

or alternatively put

Basic base64encoded

As a value in the Authorization header where base64encoded is the result of base64 encoding username:password.


#3

Thanks - Have tried the:

http://username:[email protected]:8080/ …

Will play around with the base64encoded