I'm using ASIHTTPRequest to access a web based API and need to set a header for App authentication. Note that this is not a server level authentication it is at API level. I've tried every thing I could find and most of the answers on the web as well as the ones here at www.stackoverflow.com tell me to use something like:
[request addRequestHeader:#"username" value:#"asdf"];
This does not work for me. The guy who built the API I'm using told me that I need to set the header as:
Authorization: TRUEREST username=PersonName&password=pass&apikey=dfiu6aewruif3Bismillah4Rah3anArahimiImi22MyDad
So I tried the following:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://ifish-uk.co.uk/rest_users/login.json"];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request addRequestHeader:#"username" value:#"MyUser"];
[request addRequestHeader:#"password" value:#"MyPass"];
[request addRequestHeader:#"apikey" value:#"dfiu6aewruif3Bismillah4Rah3anArahimiImi22MyDad"];
But it didn't work... I even tried setting the Request type to GET because the developer told me I should do this:
[request setRequestMethod:#"GET"];
This didn't work... The API developer told me he is made this module as follow:
POST /rest_catches/add.json HTTP/1.1
Host: ifish-uk.co.uk
Authorization: TRUEREST username=MyUser&password=MyPass&apikey=dfiu6aewruif3Bismillah4Rah3anArahimiImi22MyDad
Cache-Control: no-cache
any help would be greatly appreciated.
You should add only one header is Authorization no need to add separate headers for each field (use, pass, etc).
Fill it with your specific values and send.
[request addRequestHeader:#"Authorization" value:#"TRUEREST username=PersonName&password=pass&apikey=dfiu6aewruif3Bismillah4Rah3anArahimiImi22MyDad"];
Did you try adding:
[request setRequestMethod:#"POST"];
?
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I need to change a default HTTP header "Connection" in NSMutableURLRequest to "close" value, instead of "keep-alive". What is the best practice to do it?
I tried to use TCP level and create HTTP request myself + use GCDAsyncSocket. It works, but I think this solution looks not very nice.
Thanks.
As simple as u can think of:
NSMutableURLRequest* request = [NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:url];
[request setValue:#"close" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Connection"];
If u want to add value:
[request addValue:VALUE forHTTPHeaderField:#"Connection"];
I am currently trying to make a REST call from an iOS device. My code is below
NSString *restCallString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"MyURL"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:restCallString];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:60];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
[request addValue:Value1 forHTTPHeaderField:#"Header1"];
[request addValue:Value2 forHTTPHeaderField:#"Header2"];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:restCallString]];
#try{
_currentConnection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
}
#catch(NSError *e){
NSLog(#"%#", e.description);
}
Whenever this is called, I get the following error: Authentication credentials were not provided. However, what confuses me is that if I send an identical GET request via a HTTP web console, it works perfectly. In other words, using the same URL and the same 2 header-value pairs, I get a valid response on a web console, and see no authentication errors. What could be causing this?
You are setting the HTTP headers. This won't work, because the HTTP header is not contained in $_GET or $_POST because they're are not content, but description of the content expected.
Try this instead:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[restCallString stringByAppendingFormat:#"?Header1=%#&Header2=%#", Value1, Value2]];
Of cause you have to be aware that the URL is RFC 1738 compliant.
if I send an identical GET request via a HTTP web console, it works perfectly
I suspect your web console is leveraging SessionAuthentication — i.e. If you're already logged in to your site in your browser the API will authenticate you based on your session cookie.
Django Rest Framework provides various authentication methods and there are third-party options too. The simplest to get going is probably the provided Token Auth method.
Make sure this is enabled. Create a token in the admin (or via the provided view) and make sure you've set the Authorization header. It needs to look like this:
Authorization: Token 9944b09199c62bcf9418ad846dd0e4bbdfc6ee4b
So your Objective-C will go something like:
[request addValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"Token %#", yourToken]
forHTTPHeaderField:#"Authorization"];
Hopefully that gets you started.
I am using ASIHttpRequest and make use GET method to send header to server. I call method addRequestHeader like this
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request addRequestHeader:#"myHeader" value:#"abc"];
It's not working. But if I use NSMutableURLRequest to add header and request to server, it works.
I don't know anything wrong when calling addRequestHeader methods for ASIHTTPRequest library.
Have anyone seen this issue?
Wow ok so, yeah if this is a new app, please do NOT use ASIHttpRequest. It has long been supplanted by the delightful AFNetworking.
If this is an existing application, you really should work on a migration plan off ASI.
However, in an attempt to actually answer your question - that is the appropriate setup per the documentation, and is how I used to use it. My guess is something is broken under the covers and judging from a basic google request, there are issues with iOS 7 including memory leaks and requests just failing.
You can do it via NSURLRequest
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.abc.com"]];
NSMutableURLRequest *mutableRequest = [request mutableCopy];
[mutableRequest addValue:#"AAA" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Hello-there"];
request = [mutableRequest copy];
NSLog(#"%#", request.allHTTPHeaderFields);
Hope this helps .. :)
I'm working on a mobile share point application. I'm facing issue while trying to retrieve list collection of a sub-site. Went through so many blogs and tried different approaches but of no use.
My Home site has two sub sites (SampleSubsite & SampleSubsite2) in which I've document libraries created.
The GetSite web service defined in /_vti_bin/SiteData.asmx returns the following response.
Url = "http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852";
Url = "http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852/SampleSubsite";
Url = "http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852/SampleSubSite2";
Now, when I try to fetch the List Collection of a sub site (in this case for example SampleSubsite), I'm constructing the URL as follows.
http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852/SampleSubsite/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx
I've tried multiple options but of no use. (Test is the root site name). In all the below 3 cases, I get the root collection itself.
http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852/Sites/SampleSubsite/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx
http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852/Sites/Test/SampleSubsite/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx
http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852/Test/SampleSubSite/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx
Could anyone through some light on it.
Code snippet Below:
#define kFetchListCollectionXML #"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"\
#"<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">"\
#"<soap:Body>"\
#"<GetListCollection xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/\" />"\
#"</soap:Body>"\
#"</soap:Envelope>"\
- (void)getListCollectionOfSite:(NSString *)sitePath {
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx",sitePath]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[request setValue:#"text/xml; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[request setValue:#"http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/GetListCollection" forHTTPHeaderField:#"SOAPAction"];
[request setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%ld",(unsigned long)kFetchListCollectionXML.length] forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[request setHTTPBody:[kFetchListCollectionXML dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[self performConnectionWithRequest:request];
}
The issue worked fine after creating the Alternate Access Mapping and creating the request for the the subsites as follows:
For subsite "SampleSubsite" with URL "http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852/SampleSubsite", the request URL should be constructed as follows.
http://sp2010.lab.xyz.local:20852/SampleSubsite/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx
I was struggling with this using the New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet. The problem went away when I added ?WSDL to the end of the query string, as suggested here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2010/06/24/using-new-webserviceproxy-to-get-modify-and-add-items-to-a-list-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx
I'm trying to download a file from a cloud via a GET HTTP request, and in my REST Client (Postman for Chrome) I get the results as expected, but when I pass the request in iOS, I get a NULL response. What could be the problem?
In my REST Client, I pass the URL as http://myserver.com/api/download.json?filepath=/&fileid=document:1pLNAbof_dbXGn43GtMNafABMAr_peTToh6wEkXlab7U&filename=My Info.doc with a header field for a authorization key, and it works perfectly fine.
While in iOS, if I do such a thing:
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:URLString]]; // I tried even to hardcode the
// URLString to be one of the
// working URLs from the Postman
// Client, doesn't work as well.
[request setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
NSData* response = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request
returningResponse:&urlResponseList
error:&requestErrorList];
response is null, and I get a status code 500.
Anyone know how to make this work? Thanks.
it looks like your URL has a space in it, you'll need to escape that before sending the string to NSURL.
it would also be helpful to know what the full error from your server is if this doesn't work. what does requestErrorList contain?
but if the only problem is the non-escaped characters something like this should work.
NSString *encodedString = [URLString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:encodedString];
An HTTP status code 500 occurs when the webservice is not able to handle your request. An internal error occured.
Try to add some more details to your request.
[request setValue:#"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Accept"];
[request setValue:#"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];