I am trying to add an event from my local database to the Davical server (in fact, this should apply to any CalDav server, as long as it is compliant with the CalDav protocol)...
From what I could read here, I can send a PUT request to add events contained in a VCALENDAR collection... So here is what I try to do:
try {
// Create the HttpWebRequest object
HttpWebRequest Request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create("http://my_caldav_srv/davical.php/user/mycalendar");
// Add the network credentials to the request
Request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(usr, pwd);
// Specify the method
Request.Method = "PUT";
// some headers - I MAY BE MISSING THINGS HERE???
Request.Headers.Add("Overwrite", "T");
// set the body of the request...
Request.ContentLength = bodyStr.Length;
Stream reqStream = Request.GetRequestStream();
// Write the string to the destination as a text file.
reqStream.Write( Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(body), 0, body.Length);
// Set the content type header.
Request.ContentType = contentType.Trim();
// Send the method request and get the response from the server.
Response = (HttpWebResponse)Request.GetResponse();
}
catch (Exception e) {
throw new Exception("Caught error: " + e.Message, e);
}
The body I send is actually an emtpy calendar:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
PRODID:-//davical.org//NONSGML AWL Calendar//EN
X-WR-CALNAME:My Calendar
END:VCALENDAR
For a reason I cannot understand, the call with "PUT" returns an error (405) Method Not Allowed. The PUSH returns (500) Internal Server Error, but looking at the debug details, the reason is the same as for the PUT case...
In debugging on the server side, I found out that the reason is that in caldav-PUT-vcalendar.php, the following clause is violated:
$c->readonly_webdav_collections
Well, first, let me mention that with the SAME credentials entered in Lightning, I am able to add/remove events and, on the admin interface, I actually made sure to grant ALL rights to the user. So I'd be surprised it is due to that...
Any help would be most appreciated !
Kind regards,
Nik
OK, I got it....
The reason is that one must put the event to some EVENT adress....
I.e. the "url" is not the collection's address, but the EVENT's address...
So the same code using the following address works:
string url="http://my_server/caldav.php/username/calendarpath/_my_event_id.ics";
Does anybody know if it is possible to insert / delete multiple events at once ???
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Hi so I am setting up some Integration tests (using Xunit) and I would like to run an Assert to check whether the correct custom error message is returned.
This is the data I need to get is in the following response see image...
detail: "Username must be unique" Don't worry this message will be modified to be more useful later on I am just wanting to get it working first
Required Info
This is the current code...
//Act
response = await _httpClient.PostAsync("CompleteUserSetup", formContent);
//Assert
Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, response.StatusCode) ; //Bad request should be returned
//TODO: check custom error message is correct
So hoping for...
ASSERT.Equal("Username must be unique", some code to get detail from response)
Okay so I figured out how to get the data I needed. I just needed to convert the result into an object and then I was able to pull the detail data that I needed.
var resultModel = await System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.DeserializeAsync<Result>(response.Content.ReadAsStream(), JsonSerializerHelper.DefaultDeserialisationOptions);
var errorMessage = resultModel.detail;
I'm trying to pass parameters in the request body, the documentation says :
The request to be sent was defined in a prior call to the Open method. The calling application can provide data to be sent to the server through the Body parameter. If the HTTP verb of the object's Open is "GET", this method sends the request without Body, even if it is provided by the calling application.
So, I need to use POST with body. But when I use use POST with body I have error "Bad Request: message text is empty" and when I use GET with body result is ok. Why?
My code:
WinHttp = NEW COMObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1");
WinHttp.Open("GET", "http://api.telegram.org/botbotname/sendMessage", 0);
WinHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
JSONWr = New JSONWriter();
JSONWr.ValidateStructure = False;
JSONParams = New JSONWriterSettings( , Chars.Tab);
JSONWr.SetString(JSONParams);
JSONWr.WriteStartObject();
JSONWr.WritePropertyName("chat_id");
JSONWr.WriteValue(UserId);
JSONWr.WritePropertyName("text");
JSONWr.WriteValue(Text);
JSONWr.WriteEndObject();
JSONString = JSONWr.Close();
WinHttp.Send(JSONString);
work, but how? And why the same with POST doesn`t work?
To get around twitters streaming API not having a crossdomain file to access it from client side( in this case Silverlight) I have made a Generic Handler file in a web project which basically downloads the stream from twitter and as it reads it, writes it to the client.
Here is the handler code:
context.Response.Buffer = false;
context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?locations=-180,-90,180,90");
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password");
StreamReader responseStream = new StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream(), Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8"));
while (!responseStream.EndOfStream)
{
string line = "(~!-/" + responseStream.ReadLine() + "~!-/)";
context.Response.BinaryWrite((Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(line)));}
And this does work, but the problem is that once the client disconnects the handler just carry's on downloading. So how do I tell if the client is still busy receiving the request and if not, end the while loop?
Also, my second problem is that on the client side doing a "ReadLine()" does nothing, presumably because it is counting the entire stream as one line so never gets the full response. To work around that I read it byte by byte and when it sees "(~!-/" around something it know that is one line. VERY hacky, I know.
Thanks!
Found the answer!
while (context.Response.IsClientConnected)
:)
Our c#.net software connects to an online app to deal with accounts and a shop. It does this using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse.
An example of this interaction, and one area where the exception in the title has come from is:
var request = HttpWebRequest.Create(onlineApp + string.Format("isvalid.ashx?username={0}&password={1}", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(username), HttpUtility.UrlEncode(password))) as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "GET";
using (var response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
int read;
do
{
read = responseStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
ms.Write(buffer, 0, read);
} while (read > 0);
ms.Position = 0;
return Convert.ToBoolean(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(ms.ToArray()));
}
The online app will respond either 'true' or 'false'. In all our testing it gets one of these values, but for a couple of customers (out of hundreds) we get this exception System.FormatException: String was not recognized as a valid Boolean Which sounds like the response is being garbled by something. If we ask them to go to the online app in their web browser, they see the correct response. The clients are usually on school networks which can be fairly restrictive and often under proxy servers, but most cope fine once they've put the proxy details in or added a firewall exception. Is there something that could be messing up the response from the server, or is something wrong with our code?
Indeed, it's possible that the return result is somehow different.
Is there any particular reason you are doing the reasonably elaborate method of reading the repsonse there? Why not:
string data;
using(HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse){
StreamReader str = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
data = str.ReadToEnd();
str.Close();
}
string cleanResult = data.Trim().ToLower();
// log this
return Convert.ToBoolean(cleanResult);
First thing to note is I would definitely use something like:
bool myBool = false;
Boolean.TryParse(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(ms.ToArray()), myBool);
return myBool;
It's not some localisation issue is it? It's expecting the Swahili version of 'true', and getting confused. Are all the sites in one country, with the same language, etc?
I'd add logging, as suggested by others, and see what results you're seeing.
I'd also lean towards changing the code as silky suggested, though with a few further changes from me (code 'smell' issues, IMO); Use using around the stream reader, as well as the response.
Also, I don't think the use of as is appropriate in this instance. If the Response can't be cast to HttpWebResponse (which, admittedly is unlikely, but still) you'll get a NullRef exception on the response.GetResponseStream() bit which is both a vague error, and you've lost the original line number. Using (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse() will give you a more correct error, and the correct line number of the actual error.
The follow code (running in ASP.Net 2.0) displays the contents of the requested URL twice. I only want it to display the contents of the requested URL once. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. The URL requested is returning XML and if I visit the URL directly, it works fine.
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
byte[] postDataBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/xml";
request.ContentLength = postDataBytes.Length;
Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
requestStream.Write(postDataBytes, 0, postDataBytes.Length);
requestStream.Close();
// get response and write to console
response = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();
StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8);
try {
Response.Write(responseReader.ReadToEnd());
}
finally {
responseReader.Close();
}
response.Close();
Your code looks good, so I don't think the problem is there... but what I would suggest is the following:
1) Maybe the error is on the URL's other end... so try hitting Google and see if the returned content is good or not.
2) Put a breakpoint at the "responseReader.ReadToEnd()" spot, and see if what's coming out of there is good.
3) If this code above is in an ASPX page... are you making sure to call "Response.End();" after you're last line of code? (not "resposne.close()", but "Response.End()").
I found the problem. It's not with the above code at all, but with the page being called. The page I was calling was inherited from a class whose Page_OnInit method contained the following line: "MyBase.OnLoad(e)", which caused the Page_OnLoad method to be executed twice. Obviously, it should have been MyBase.OnInit(e) instead. I didn't catch it because when I tested the page directly I had to temporarily remove the inheritance from the class because of some other code that would've have prevented me from testing the page directly.
I will now put on my "Dunce" hat and retreat to the corner for a time out. Thanks anyway for the help.