Re: LIBHTTP, Soap POST, and Basic Auth

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

It's not clear why you are calling http_persist_open(), here, as you are 
not using 'pComm' with any further persist functions. This would not 
relate to the '400 Bad Request', but it is wasting memory on something 
that's never used. (Or, at least, not in the code you provided to us.)

With regards to '400 Bad Request', it essentially means that the server 
you're sending your document to didn't like something about the 
request.   It could be pretty much anything...   Simply something you've 
sent wasn't what it expected you to send.

Good servers will send you back a response document -- since this is 
SOAP, it would be a SOAP message with a "fault" tag in it -- that 
describes what the problem is.   You say you have a debug log... 
consider looking for this response document to see if there's more 
information.

Aside from that, look at their documentation and compare what they say 
they expect to what you are sending.

Also... as a minor aside...  please don't refer to HTTPAPI as 
"LIBHTTP".   Yes, the default library its installed into is named 
"LIBHTTP", but that's just the name of the library.  The tool is called 
"HTTPAPI".

-SK


On 4/1/2020 9:09 AM, Stephen Piland wrote:
> We have Scott's LIBHTTP v1.39 installed and I'm having issues adding Basic Authentication to a process that was previously working great.
>
> The code below is the shell of what is going on.  We added the http_setauth line.  Maybe I'm doing it in the wrong order.  We are connecting according to the debug log.  With the same info, I'm able to connect and post using SoapUI.  However, we receive a HTTP 400 Bad Request back in our RPG code.  That same HTTP 400 is returned in SoapUI if I pass in a bad UserId and/or password.
>
> Any thoughts?  Thanks!
>
> http_setOption('SoapAction': '"InventoryByStore"');
> pComm = http_persist_open(URL);
> http_setauth(HTTP_AUTH_BASIC:UID:Password);
> response = http_string('POST': URL: SOAP_Message: 'text/xml');