HTTPSocket code worked in RealStudio, not in Xojo

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I know I’m missing something obvious, but I’m trying to bring an app forward from RealStudio. This (slightly redacted) code runs fine in RealStudio and returns an xml response containing a session ID. In Xojo, it times out. Any hints?

  // http is an HTTPSocket dragged onto the window
  dim s as string
  dim d as new dictionary
    
  d.value("username")= "abc"
  d.value("password")= "xyz"
  http.SetFormData(d)
  http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
  s= http.post("www.example.com/api/v1/user/login", 30)
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I created a throwaway user so I could post actual code:

  dim s as string
  dim d as new dictionary
  
  d.value("username")= "test"
  d.value("password")= "test"
  http.SetFormData(d)
  http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
  s= http.post("www.telios.com/drupal/api/v1/user/login", 30)
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You say in the comment in your original code “// http is an HTTPSocket dragged onto the window”

I might be losing my mind, but I don’t find an HTTPSocket control that can be dragged into a window in the latest version of Xojo.
I have always instantiated them in code.

Does it work if you try that?

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[quote=333706:@Tim Hare]I know I’m missing something obvious, but I’m trying to bring an app forward from RealStudio. This (slightly redacted) code runs fine in RealStudio and returns an xml response containing a session ID. In Xojo, it times out. Any hints?
[/quote]
First off open real studio and see if the old code still works there
That will rule out any back end changes the site has made as the cause

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[quote=333711:@Jared Feder]You say in the comment in your original code “// http is an HTTPSocket dragged onto the window”

I might be losing my mind, but I don’t find an HTTPSocket control that can be dragged into a window in the latest version of Xojo.
I have always instantiated them in code.

Does it work if you try that?[/quote]

Drag out a “Generic object” and change the super

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[quote=333712:@Norman Palardy]First off open real studio and see if the old code still works there
[/quote]
It does. That’s the first thing I did.

Interestingly, it does work in Xojo if I change it to an HTTPSecureSocket with Secure=False. So I have a workaround. The next challenge will be to use the new framework.

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huh … cant say I know the innards of http socket vs secure socket that well but that is kind of surprising that behaves that differently

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[quote=333715:@Tim Hare]It does. That’s the first thing I did.

Interestingly, it does work in Xojo if I change it to an HTTPSecureSocket with Secure=False. So I have a workaround. The next challenge will be to use the new framework.[/quote]

I have run into that same issue with webservices, but only on Windows.
The good thing is that your workaround will work on both Windows and macOS, even though it isn’t necessary for macOS builds.

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OK, so I attempted to use the new framework. I put another socket on the window named http2 with super Xojo.Net.HTTPSocket. This code is based on the example on http://developer.xojo.com/xojo-net-httpsocket. It returns a 401 status code, which I think is authentication error. What am I missing?

  using xojo.core
  using xojo.data
  
  dim d as new Dictionary
  dim json as text
  dim data as MemoryBlock
  
  d.value("username")= "test"
  d.value("password")= "test"
  json= generateJSON(d)
  data= TextEncoding.UTF8.ConvertTextToData(json)
  http2.SetRequestContent(data, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
  http2.Send("POST", "http://www.telios.com/drupal/api/v1/user/login")
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[quote=333720:@Tim Hare]json= generateJSON(d) […]
http2.SetRequestContent(data, “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”)[/quote]

Is the server expecting a JSON object or a URL-encoded HTTP form?

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Excellent question. I’m not sure what SetFormData in the old framework does.

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SetFormData generates a URL-encoded form, which is probably what your want.

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Yup, that was it. I changed the line to

json= "username=test&password=test"

and it works! Thank you, Andrew!