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Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 357

OCamlnet and Ripple API

I am trying to write some code to retrieve my account status from the ripple API (https://ripple.com/wiki/JSON_Messages). The code I am currently using:

    #require "netclient";;
    open Http_client.Convenience;;

    let account_info =
      [
        ("command","account_info");
        ("account","my_account_key")
      ]
    ;;

    let response = http_post_message "http://s1.ripple.com:51234" account_info;;

I am sending the request to http://s1.ripple.com:51234 and I am receiving a Bad Request error. Note: I have tried both method and command as parameters as well as the http_post and http_post_message methods. 

    # response#status;;
    - : Http_client.status = `Client_error
    # response#response_status;;
    - : Nethttp.http_status = `Bad_request

I must be doing something fundamentally wrong with the way I am requesting the data but I do not have enough experience with this subject matter to know where I am going wrong. I thought that maybe I should use the Http_client.post_raw method, however my toplevel cannot recognize this method. I am not sure how to proceed to correct my errors.

    # Http_client.post_raw;;
    Error: Unbound value Http_client.post_raw

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 224

Answers (2)

Ontologiae
Ontologiae

Reputation: 605

There's probably something wrong with your server :

$ curl -v http://s1.ripple.com:51234/
* About to connect() to s1.ripple.com port 51234 (#0)
*   Trying 54.200.86.207...
* Adding handle: conn: 0x7f92a1808c00
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x7f92a1808c00) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* Connected to s1.ripple.com (54.200.86.207) port 51234 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.32.0
> Host: s1.ripple.com:51234
> Accept: */*
>
* Empty reply from server
* Connection #0 to host s1.ripple.com left intact
curl: (52) Empty reply from server

I used OcamlNet a lot and if I can advise you : test your url with curl in a terminal before.

Upvotes: 1

ygrek
ygrek

Reputation: 6697

When using HTTP API first and foremost test the API with curl command-line utility. Once you get an expected response - implement the code to send the same request with same headers. Check with curl -v and the debugging facilities of your http library.

Upvotes: 3

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