Issue with MailChimp delete API? - mailchimp

For DELETE APIs, if we hit the API with invalid data, the API responds with proper error message. If we use the same HTTP connection object to hit another API, the request fails.
This issue is not seen for Create or Update APIs. Also if the Delete request is sent with valid data, then using the same HTTP connection object for next request works fine.
Please note that this behavior has implications for connection pooling in client applications, and we were just wondering if its known issue and if there is any available workaround.

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Spring RestTemplate Response string is shorter than expected

I am trying to get an access token via RestTemplate.postForEntity().
myRestTemplate.postForEntity(authBaseUrl, request, Object.class);
I have a specific class for it, but let's use now a simple Object as type. It contains an access_token field.
It works, because I can get response, but the length if the access tokens (which is a string)
is 1196 character long. And I can get the same length in Postman too.
But if I use the intelliJ built-in REST client, the length is 1199.
Only the token from the intelliJ rest client works (So the longer).
Because I always get a new access token, it is impossible to get the same token twice.
How can I debug it?
What could be the problem?
Is the code that generates the response available to you? if so in your response add a header content-length so you can see what the server sent and what you received. Also, debug the server side and see what is being generated. In addition take another 3d party Http client and test it with this client see if you see a difference. The Http clients that you can try are Apache Http client, OK Http client, or my favorite - a very simplistic client written by me as part of my own Open Source MgntUtils library. Here is the Javadoc for my http client Here is a link to a similar question where you can get the references for any of above mentioned Http clients: How to check the status of POST endpoint/url in java

ColdFusion API and Websockets

I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have a CF2021 Server which uses a Node.js websocket server and CF pages (via javascript) as a client. Messages from user to user work as expected, so no issue there.
This CF Server also has a custom API built using CFML that handles and routes inbound SMS messages. My question is; what would be the best way to send the SMS message (by now its json) to the Node.js websocket to it can send it to the user(s).
I tried using the same javascript that the browser client uses, but it appears that the CFML API script is "browser-less", so that doesn't work, or should it?
I thought something like Apache Groovy may be the solution, but I am having difficulties with any websocket example I have found.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance
Flow matters.
If you want to handle an incoming message by delivering it to all currently logged in users who are subscribed to messages of the current sort: set up your message handler to deliver using lucee/adobe-coldfusion websockets. Be forewarned, Lucee takes some setup time, but once running, it is a great solution.
If you don't need immediate delivery, or you need a super simple solution: I actually have had some success with "Long Polling" you just have to remember to use "flush" early in the request, before any pause/sleep, then loop your message lookup requests for new data, with a 1-5 second delay between each loop. Once new data is found, I like to return the request to the client, close that polling request and start a new polling request using the client side. I typically won't poll for more than 60 seconds. Even if the returned json object is empty.

How to perform a GET request after a POST request with web-sockets

I am currently trying to build a go API using gin for a web and mobile application. I am new to the world of WebSockets and Go so I was wondering how I would go about triggering a GET request from the client after a relevant POST request was made ie: the POST request contained the user's ID so the clients who require information regarding that user are properly updated. Currently, I have the POST and GET requests which do what I need them, but I'm a little lost about how to make the entire flow realtime using WebSockets.
I believe this example of server-sent-events should address the question. Once a POST handler has been called, send a flag to the GET endpoint via a channel and then send an event through there.

POST call in Mulesoft

I am trying to make a HTTPS POST call in mulesoft to an external API. I had read in the mulesoft documentation and also in other posts that in order to send the request body, a map has to be prepared.
Hence, i am using the "Set-Payload" to prepare a map.
Eg: #[{'key':'value'}]
When I am using the logger to display it, it prints a map (as expected).
But when the POST call is being made, i am receiving the following error:
Response code 503 mapped as failure. Message payload is of type: BufferInputStream
Payload : org.glassfish.grizzly.utils.BufferInputStream#3f8f77a
Could anyone let me know where am i going wrong?
Thanks in Advance.
The server you're trying to call is returning status 503. Have you tried calling the external API using other client SOAP/Postman/Curl?
Also check this out:
http://forums.mulesoft.com/questions/2009/consume-get-restful-service.html
You should set proper mimetype for muleMessage and set the http POST method, then it should work.
While posting the data male sure how your http is expecting the input. What ever the transformations you want to make before posting do it, finally when posting the data to http cross check your data type with the data in the server your are trying to send. Both needs to match. Then it work.
I generally try to Isolate HTTP interaction problems into two parts. One is related to request itself for e.g. URL,Method,Headers,Payload,MimeType and other should be related to transport and network interaction with Server itself. To better view the information for both of the above details use a htt[ proxy/debugger [for. e.g. Fiddler] around the traffic flowing while you make a request. This will throw more light on the stuff hindering you while making this call successfully.
You can try any of the below sugestions-:
Set payload as map, mention MIME Type as application/json and then use json to object transformer (with return class as java.util.HashMap).
Set payload as simple string. This could help.
Status code 503 implies that the server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay.
Please try resending the message or hit the API with Postman.
It looks like you need to change the port in the request-config to 443 since you're using HTTPS.
<http:request-config name="HTTP_Request_Configuration" protocol="HTTPS" host="jiratst.murex.com" port="443" doc:name="HTTP Request Configuration" basePath="/rest/api/2/project">
try using input {'key':'value'} in set payload instead of Array.

Eradicating 401 "Unauthorised" responses followed by 200 "Ok" responses

I’ve got a situation with a large internal corporate web based application running ASP.NET 3.5 on IIS6 generating 401 “Unauthorised” responses followed by 200 “Ok” responses (as profiled by Fiddler). I’m aware of why this happening (integrated auth forcing the browser to resend credentials) but I’m looking for some thoughts on how to minimise or eradicate the situation. The application in question is running in the WAN with some users experiencing latency of up to 250ms so forcing a subsequent request can have a noticeable impact on page load time, particularly when there are a number of cascading drop down lists on the pages making.
The users of the application are internal within a managed desktop environment so mechanisms to force the browser to send credentials on the first request (is this even possible?) could be possible from a deployment perspective. This would work for pages requiring the user’s identity but for resources not requiring authentication (WebResource.axd, ScriptResource.axd and some custom web services), allowing anonymous auth would be possible. I’ve looked at defining this on a per location basis in the web.config but the results were mixed (still a number of 401 responses).
I’d appreciate any guidance on a “best practice” for dealing with this situation. There are a lot of resources out there identifying the problem but none that I’ve found providing a feasible solution.
Thanks!
Edit: Resources not requiring authentication (i.e. web services used for cascading drop down lists) can be requested anonymously through adding a location entry to the web config but I'm yet to find an answer for authenticated resources.
Unfortunately this is an artifact of the HTTP NTLM authentication scheme.
In short, the browser (Internet Explorer or otherwise) doesn't know that it needs to authenticate at all until it gets bounced with a 401 response containing a WWW-Authenticate response header.
In the case of WWW-Authenticate: NTLM -- annoyingly enough -- it requires two 401 responses on a single persistent connection to complete, and this process must be repeated once the HTTP persistent connection is closed. So even if you were able to get the browser to initiate a request blindly attempting NTLM, at least one 401 response cannot be removed from the transaction.
I think your best bet would be to maximize the amount of time that persistent connections are left open when idle.
CSCRIPT.EXE c:\inetpub\adminscripts\ADSUTIL.VBS SET W3SVC/AuthPersistSingleRequest FALSE
Will reduce the amount of 401's significantly.
I believe you can convince Firefox to automatically send NTLM credentials to a whitelisted set of domains via "about:config" settings - use the "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" setting. I haven't tried this myself though. I'm not sure there's any equivalent for Internet Explorer.
Unfortunately if you're using something else like Kerberos there does not seem to be a way to avoid the 401.
You may need to consider Forms Authentication if the 401-induced latency is too long. The users would have to explicitly log in, but just once. Then you could use a cookie or cookieless scheme and get a response on the first try.
I imagine that page load would be slow if you have cascading drop-downs and your initial page load populates one value that causes a POST to get the next list, set that value, another POST to get the next list again, and so on. If this is the situation, perhaps you need to populate all those drop-downs on the first round-trip rather than waiting for POST responses.
TL;DR I put HTTP header information in HTTP body
My example is in Angular, but any TypeScript/JavaScript (framework) might have the same issue.
When doing a HTTP post call to my backend API, which requires headers with the logged in user information, I added my HTTP headers where my HTTP body should be and the headers were empty.
PROBLEM
markInstructionAsCompleted(visitScheduleId: string, instructionId: number) {
return this.http.post(`${environment.apiUrl}/VisitInstructions/schedule/${visitScheduleId}/done/${instructionId}`, this.getHeaderWithAuthorization());
}
SOLUTION, notice that there's an added second argument to the HTTP post call, which is null
markInstructionAsCompleted(visitScheduleId: string, instructionId: number) {
return this.http.post(`${environment.apiUrl}/VisitInstructions/schedule/${visitScheduleId}/done/${instructionId}`, null, this.getHeaderWithAuthorization());
}

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