Re: Why does this https post request always return "404 Not Found"
Re: Why does this https post request always return "404 Not Found"
- Subject: Re: Why does this https post request always return "404 Not Found"
- From: an0 <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:14:13 +0800
Cool, it works. Thanks a lot.
But as to APIs, I really can't find the login API, or I would of
course use that instead of posting forms.
Can you tell me where the login API is?
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
> This is pretty weird. After some experimenting, I narrowed it down to the
> value of the User-Agent header. I think the del.icio.us server is checking
> that header and returning a 404 if it doesn't like it. And it doesn't seem
> to like CFNetwork's default user-agent header, though it likes Safari and
> curl.
>
> You can programmatically set the "User-Agent" header value to "Mozilla/5.0
> (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like
> Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.20" and the result should work.
>
> On the other hand, why are you trying to log into del.icio.us using forms
> and cookies as though you were a web browser? That site already has a pretty
> comprehensive API for applications to access it; you should use that
> instead. (That may in fact be what they're trying to tell you by blocking
> your request.)
>
> —Jens
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