Send post request - ruby-on-rails

How i can send request like this via rails
POST /token/ HTTP/1.1
Host: api.admitad.com
Authorization: Basic XXX
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8
grant_type=client_credentials&scope=public_data&client_id=XXX
based on admitad api

You can send the POST request via the command line with a tool like cURL:
curl --data-urlencode "grant_type=client_credentials&scope=public_data&client_id=XXX" http://api.admitad.com/token
If you want to use HTTP basic authorization, add the -u option:
curl --data-urlencode "grant_type=client_credentials&scope=public_data&client_id=XXX" http://api.admitad.com/token -u "client_id:public_key"
Another similar command line tool is httpie.org, which uses a slightly different syntax.

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Spring Boot and XMLHttpRequest

I am having a hard time understanding how Spring Boot (v1.3.3) handles the X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest header. My understanding is that this header tells Spring Boot to return, for requests without an authenticated session, a 401-Unauthorized error rather than a 302-Found with a location to the login page.
I have set up my AngularJS client to send this header for any routing, and then configured an $http interceptor to act on the 401 error by displaying a dialog. Doesn't work for me, with a Spring Boot server with no additional security configuration.
With some investigation with CURL:
It seems that the -H "Accept: application/json" header also needs to be provided.
curl -v -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" localhost:9080/ returns a 302, while curl -v -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Accept: application/json" localhost:9080/ returns a 401.
Questions: Why is the application/json header required as well? Can I configure it differently (i.e. not require application/json header)? Should I configure it this way, or take another approach? The reason I don't want to require the application/json header is because I am not allowing public access to some resources, such as HTML templates and JS code, and want a 401 returned for these resources as well.
It seems that the JSESSIONID cookie may be affecting the response.
curl -v -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Accept: application/json" localhost:9080/ returns a 401, while curl -v -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Cookie: JSESSIONID=63EA6E09F64B98938E4495DF9898323A" localhost:9080/' returns a 302.
Questions: Why does the presence of the (valid) JSESSIONID cookie make any difference?
I have looked at the source code for Spring Security and Spring Boot and I just cannot put together the pieces. Any help is much appreciated.

why is this parse.com rest api request failing?

i'm trying to send a parse.com push notification from ruby 1.8.7.
i got a test working with curl. but with ruby's net::http i'm getting Timeout::Error: Resource temporarily unavailable
how can i debug this? i don't know how to see why the parse server is responding differently or otherwise see what's happening. i tried sending the request to my own server and the headers looked ok to me.
i simplified what i'm doing to this:
http = Net::HTTP.new('api.parse.com', 443)
response = http.post("/1/push", "{\"where\":{},\"data\":{\"alert\":\"Elliot net http json test 1\"}}", {"X-Parse-Application-Id"=>"xxxxx", "Content-Type"=>"application/json", "X-Parse-REST-API-Key"=>"xxxxx"})
the json there is hard to read, it's from:
api_req = {:where => {}, :data => {:alert => "Elliot net http json test 1"}}.to_json
puts api_req
# {"where":{},"data":{"alert":"Elliot net http json test 1"}}
i also tried several other ways of sending a request with net::http. same result.
the curl request that worked was:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: xxxxxx" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: xxxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {},
"data": {
"alert": "Elliot curl test #4"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
i'm not using parse-ruby-client because i ran into problems with dependencies assuming a newer version of ruby. all i need to do is send some simple push notifications, and it seems like this should work without too much trouble.
can anyone help me get this working or tell me how to get some useful info about what's happening to debug?
As per the REST API Developers guide,
All API access is over HTTPS, and accessed via the https://api.parse.com domain.
So all you need to do is to add http.use_ssl = true.

Update a page in Confluence using REST API

This is what I've currently got and it creates a new Confluence page. It doesn't update it. Also it posts it in the root space, TST, but I want it to be in TST/space1/subsection2/updateThisPage.
curl -v -u admin:admin -X POST -H Content-Type: application/json -d "{\"id\":\"123456\",\"type\":\"page\",\"title\":\"new page\",\"space\":{\"key\":\"TST\",\"title\":\"updateThisPage\"},\"body\":{\"storage\":{\"value\":\"<p>This is the updated text for the new page</p>\",\"representation\":\"storage\"}},\"version\":{\"number\":3}}" http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content?spaceKey=TST&title=updateThisPage
This is the error message I get
{"statusCode":400,"message":"A page with this title already exists: A page already exists with the title new page in the space with key TST"}
Would it be a permissions error? I know I do not have access to delete.
Use request /rest/api/content/{id}.
This worked for me.
curl -u admin:admin -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"id\":\"26738701\",\"type\":\"page\",\"title\":\"new page\",\"space\":{\"key\":\"RO\"},\"body\":{\"storage\":{\"value\":\"<p>UPDATE This is a new page</p>\",\"representation\":\"storage\"}},\"version\":{\"number\":2}}" http://localost:10080/rest/api/content/26738701
JSON Payload:
{
"id":"26738701",
"type":"page",
"title":"new page",
"space":{
"key":"RO"
},
"body":{
"storage":{
"value":"<p>UPDATE This is a new page</p>",
"representation":"storage"
}
},
"version":{
"number":2
}
}
Don't forget to use:
content ID in data part
version number in data part
PUT request
content ID in request
Try to use PUT instead of POST.
curl -v -u admin:admin -X PUT -H Content-Type: application/json -d "{\"id\":\"123456\",\"type\":\"page\",\"title\":\"new page\",\"space\":{\"key\":\"TST\",\"title\":\"updateThisPage\"},\"body\":{\"storage\":{\"value\":\"<p>This is the updated text for the new page</p>\",\"representation\":\"storage\"}},\"version\":{\"number\":3}}" http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content?spaceKey=TST&title=updateThisPage
If anyone is looking for javascript solution, here is my answer to another question like that
Unexpected grunt-http error when posting to Atlassian Confluence api
And here you can find working code i've developed on confluence hackathon
https://github.com/devex-web-frontend/dxWebPlugins/blob/master/src/confluence/helpers/buffer.js

How to send file contents as body entity using cURL

I am using cURL command line utility to send HTTP POST to a web service. I want to include a file's contents as the body entity of the POST. I have tried using -d </path/to/filename> as well as other variants with type info like --data </path/to/filename> --data-urlencode </path/to/filename> etc... the file is always attached. I need it as the body entity.
I believe you're looking for the #filename syntax, e.g.:
strip new lines
curl --data "#/path/to/filename" http://...
keep new lines
curl --data-binary "#/path/to/filename" http://...
curl will strip all newlines from the file. If you want to send the file with newlines intact, use --data-binary in place of --data
I know the question has been answered, but in my case I was trying to send the content of a text file to the Slack Webhook api and for some reason the above answer did not work. Anywho, this is what finally did the trick for me:
curl -X POST -H --silent --data-urlencode "payload={\"text\": \"$(cat file.txt | sed "s/\"/'/g")\"}" https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX
In my case, # caused some sort of encoding problem, I still prefer my old way:
curl -d "$(cat /path/to/file)" https://example.com
curl https://upload.box.com/api/2.0/files/3300/content -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" -F file=#"C:\Crystal Reports\Crystal Reports\mysales.pdf"

POST with curl according to a particular format

I'm attempting to gather XML data automatically using curl, and my command so far is
curl -E keyStore.pem -d 'uid=myusername&password=mypassword&active=y&type=F' 'https://www.aidaptest.naimes.faa.gov/aidap/XmlNotamServlet HTTP/1.1/' -k
but it keeps on giving me a "Your browser sent a query this server could not understand." error.
I'm pretty sure that it's connecting since it's not rejecting me, but I don't know how to properly format the POST. Here's some documentation they gave me for the format of the POST request.
POST <URL>/aidap/XmlNotamServlet HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-length: <input_parameter’s length>
<a blank line>
<input_parameter>`
input_parameter is uid, password, and location_id bit and is correct
Am I doing this correctly from what you can see?
Something like this should do it.
curl -E keyStore.pem -v -X POST -i --header Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
-d 'uid=myusername&password=mypassword&active=y&type=F' 'https://www.aidaptest.naimes.faa.gov/aidap/XmlNotamServlet'
I don't think you need HTTP/1.1 at the end of the URL in the command line. And even if you needed it, you certainly don't need the final / character before the closing single quote.

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