Hi,
Baselements has the functions BE_HTTP_Response_Code and BE_HTTP_Response_Headers. It does not however have a clear (to me) way of retreiving the response body. Does anyone have an idea how I can retrieve that response with the BE plugin?
Thanks!
Hi,
Baselements has the functions BE_HTTP_Response_Code and BE_HTTP_Response_Headers. It does not however have a clear (to me) way of retreiving the response body. Does anyone have an idea how I can retrieve that response with the BE plugin?
Thanks!
Philip,
Thanks for the response. That seemed too obvious, but makes sense. I tried that and the $_post variable which contains the HTTP post command returned the following weird "?". Any ideas?
I'm on a mac, if that makes any difference. I'm thinking the characters could displaying oddly.
Thanks again
What response code do you get with that? 200? If so, what is the response supposed to be? XML? JSON?
Error code is 503.
The post is of type JSON. Is it returning JSON as well, and that's why FM can't read it?
Thanks
JSON is just text, so FM can read it fine. FM16 has JSON parsing functions to get to the elements easily, if you're on 15 or earlier you can use the BE plugin to parse the JSON.
But you're not getting JSON, the 503 indicates that the web service is not happy with what you are sending. But it should return something a little more readable than it does.
I agree! I need that response to figure out what it doesn't like...
I'm on FM16 and those JSON functions are pretty sweet.
Thanks Wim
the web service's API should explain their various error codes in their documentation. Is there something there?
As an aside: you don't need the BE plugin to do the POST if you are on 16, you can use the native FM16 "insert from url" for this. Either with that or with the plugin: capture the full cURL trace, perhaps there will be a clue in there if the API documentation does not explain the error very well.
I'm not sure but HTTP 503 is "Service Unavailable"
and it means the error is caused by internal trouble of the server (too many access, etc.), not the request you made.
When you use the BE_HTTP_POST or BE_HTTP_GET functions, the results from those functions is the response body. It's only if you need to see the response headers or codes that you need to use the other functions.
So if you used: Set Variable [ $Results : BE_HTTP_GET ( $URL ) ], the $Results variable would contain the response body from calling $URL.