Why I get 411 Length required error?
This is how I call a service with .NET:
var requestedURL = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token?code=" + code + "&client_id=" + client_id + "&client_secret=" + client_secret + "&redirect_uri=" + redirect_uri + "&grant_type=authorization_code";
HttpWebRequest authRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(requestedURL);
authRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
authRequest.Method = "POST";
WebResponse authResponseTwitter = authRequest.GetResponse();
but when this method is invoked, I get:
Exception Details: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (411) Length Required.
what should I do?
When you're using HttpWebRequest and POST method, you have to set a content (or a body if you prefer) via the RequestStream. But, according to your code, using authRequest.Method = "GET" should be enough.
In case you're wondering about POST format, here's what you have to do :
ASCIIEncoding encoder = new ASCIIEncoding();
byte[] data = encoder.GetBytes(serializedObject); // a json object, or xml, whatever...
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
request.Expect = "application/json";
request.GetRequestStream().Write(data, 0, data.Length);
HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
you need to add Content-Length: 0
in your request header.
a very descriptive example of how to test is given here
When you make a POST
HttpWebRequest, you must specify the length of the data you are sending, something like:
string data = "something you need to send"
byte[] postBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
request.ContentLength = postBytes.Length;
if you are not sending any data, just set it to 0, that means you just have to add to your code this line:
request.ContentLength = 0;
Usually, if you are not sending any data, chosing the GET
method instead is wiser, as you can see in the HTTP RFC
var requestedURL = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token?code=" + code + "&client_id=" + client_id + "&client_secret=" + client_secret + "&redirect_uri=" + redirect_uri + "&grant_type=authorization_code";
HttpWebRequest authRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(requestedURL);
authRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
authRequest.Method = "POST";
//Set content length to 0
authRequest.ContentLength = 0;
WebResponse authResponseTwitter = authRequest.GetResponse();
The ContentLength
property contains the value to send as the Content-length
HTTP header with the request.
Any value other than -1 in the ContentLength
property indicates that the request uploads data and that only methods that upload data are allowed to be set in the Method property.
After the ContentLength
property is set to a value, that number of bytes must be written to the request stream that is returned by calling the GetRequestStream
method or both the BeginGetRequestStream
and the EndGetRequestStream
methods.
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