WebApi 2.1 PUT throw error 415 - asp.net-web-api

Question

I'm trying to update data using WebApi PUT method. My code working fine before, but suddenly I start to get this error.
"Message":"The request contains an entity body but no Content-Type header. The inferred media type 'application/octet-stream' is not supported for this resource.","ExceptionMessage":"No MediaTypeFormatter is available to read an object of type 'xEmployee' from content with media type 'application/octet-stream'.","ExceptionType":"System.Net.Http.UnsupportedMediaTypeException".
This is headers:
Response Header.
HTTP/1.1 415 Unsupported Media Type
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Expires: -1
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Set-Cookie: Role=D65520F37D105E39C1A92C15CD482E378F32A769592AC7D8305285A5B9B90362F7F2F13F14E6DC220E44D26940B06B52E7460EF13184F245805AF9523D1072464F4BD06AFB4F8AEB8B7D8BF607A8922C6041A3A4C636BF3B26388E606A94FE43; expires=Tue, 07-Oct-2014 09:49:56 GMT; path=/
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:19:56 GMT
Content-Length: 809
Request Header:
PUT /api/xemployees/2110481232 HTTP/1.1
Host: guideonline.ilvestour.office
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 229
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Origin: http://guideonline.ilvestour.office
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.124 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8"
Referer: http://guideonline.ilvestour.office/account
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: ru-RU,ru;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4
Cookie: .ASPXAUTH=215C424A0A023F5B42775B7A73B08FEC8CB36E7200FBA430EADF2F300A84500571F8B5EE980C3EF2913FE160978973CDBC50BDD216E16FC342EF0B566D0944ECFD901DF471DEF9F6E5D272B52F2450CC0A1FB96BCC6B3B6E7A7C07343D4DFBD66; Role=DE678EE89D7089B8CD74B202E00C53CA9AE9E4C40B506C5C4EEF56E7962F38ED86F6BFD34E5FD3A6DD6ECCCF61AF768CAB0C1D7C5F15A8638F9454B24DF3208F021EB638235420574C6420CA5A19F0B6BD07BAC303FF79612D6C1AF246563A7
Request Payloadview source
{"Kod":2110481232, "Сотрудник": "Lena", "Telephon": "088-6734227", "Password":"rimosa57", "email":"samoylova-elena#mail.ru", "CrWho":"OMEGA.Administrator", "CrWhen":"2014-10-07T09:20:05.735Z"}
Nothing special in Controller code:
[Authorize(Roles = "Admin, User")]
public async Task<IHttpActionResult> PutxEmployee(int id, xEmployee xEmployee)
{
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
return BadRequest(ModelState);
}
if (id != xEmployee.Kod)
{
return BadRequest();
}
try
{
var user = db.xEmployee.Find(id);
user.Сотрудник = xEmployee.Сотрудник;
user.Telephon = xEmployee.Telephon;
user.Password = xEmployee.Password;
user.email = xEmployee.email;
await db.SaveChangesAsync();
}
catch (DbUpdateConcurrencyException)
{
if (!xEmployeeExists(id))
{
return NotFound();
}
else
{
throw;
}
}
catch (DbEntityValidationException e)
{
foreach (var eve in e.EntityValidationErrors)
{
var path = "C:/error.txt";
using (StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText(path))
{
sw.WriteLine("Entity of type \"{0}\" in state \"{1}\" has the following validation errors:",
eve.Entry.Entity.GetType().Name, eve.Entry.State);
}
using (StreamWriter sw1 = File.CreateText("C:/error1.txt"))
foreach (var ve in eve.ValidationErrors)
{
sw1.WriteLine("- Property: \"{0}\", Error: \"{1}\"",
ve.PropertyName, ve.ErrorMessage);
}
}
throw;
}
return StatusCode(HttpStatusCode.NoContent);
}
Same as WebApiConfig:
public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
{
config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();
config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
name: "DefaultApi",
routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
);
var json = config.Formatters.JsonFormatter;
json.SerializerSettings.Culture = new CultureInfo("ru-RU");
config.Formatters.Remove(config.Formatters.XmlFormatter);
}

Answer 1

There seems to be a typo (last ") in the request's Content-Type header:
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8"
When this header is missing or malformed, the server will automatically use application/octet-stream by default, as described by this post.

Answer 2

I were facing similar problem. Though i have a Content-Type declare it was still sending same error.
What I did is added Accept Header and it started working.
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json

Answer 3

Also, make sure there's only one header Content-Type. In my case, my rest client was implicitly sending the empty Content-Type which got overridden by Content-Type: application/json hence the error.