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1413 :: httpclient: what is headers format for getContent?

• luntik2012 (orginal) [2015-07-06T13:39:56+02:00] view original

  Hi, I cannot find any info about using custom headers with getContent() procedure. I'm trying this code:

  
  from httpclient import getContent
  from httpclient import get
  var headers = ""
  var ur = "https://ololo.com/getInfo/"
  var auth_key = "blahblahblahmanychars"
  var order_id = 1111
  headers = headers & "auth_key:" & auth_key & "\c\L"
  headers = headers & "order_id:" & $order_id & "\c\L"
  echo(headers)
  echo(getContent(ur, extraHeaders=headers))
  Run

  But response is

  
  {"status":1,"auth_key":null,"status_message":"error_login"}
  Run

  Do I do something wrong or it's something with server?

  Also I get the same result when using

  
  echo(getContent(ur))
  Run

  Thank you

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• rgv151 (orginal) [2015-07-06T20:46:06+02:00] view original

  I think you have problem w/ your auth key, not the headers themself

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• luntik2012 (orginal) [2015-07-06T21:21:03+02:00] view original

  I newbie in web programming, sorry for stupid question.

  So solution for that is making get-request to address?auth_key=abrakadabra&order_id=12345

  
  getContent("https://address/api/?auth_key=abrakadabra&order_id=12345")
  Run

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• pyloor (orginal) [2015-07-07T06:22:09+02:00] view original

  Headers and params are two different things.

  Headers are (for example):

  • Content Length
  • Custom Http Headers (starting with X-)

  Params are key-value-pairs which are sent to the server as a query string.

  As far as I understand the lib, the headers are for http headers defined in RFC2616, RFC2047 (Custom X-Headers) and RFC6648 (Deprecation of custom X-headers). If you want to submit a query_string you have to build it your own. With python requests library, it is possible to do a "params=params" and the params are added as query_string to the url but I haven't found a similiar way to do this with httpclient.

  I may completely wrong because I am new to nim. Perhaps one of the nim geeks would/should answer you.

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• luntik2012 (orginal) [2015-07-07T07:04:51+02:00] view original

  I think this can help with parameters

  https://github.com/achesak/exthttp.nim/blob/master/exthttp.nim

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