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JonnyBoats
JonnyBoats

Reputation: 5187

Google safe browsing returning 400 bad request

Google is returning a 400 bad request; but what is wrong with the request?

open FSharp.Data

let apiKey = "key goes here - removed for stackoverflow"

let postUrl = "http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/downloads"
let testArray = "2\nhttp://www.google.com/\nhttp://ianfette.org/"

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv = 

    let foo2 = Http.Request(postUrl, httpMethod = "Post",
        query   = [ "client", "api"; "apikey", apiKey; "appver", "1.0"; "pver", "2.2" ],
        body = TextRequest (testArray)
        )

    0

I have verified that my key is correct by successfully executing get requests, it is only the post that is failing.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 961

Answers (1)

JonnyBoats
JonnyBoats

Reputation: 5187

When I updated FSharp.Data to version 2.0.5 (released 2014-03-29) this started working. I can only assume that there was a bug in the previous version that is now fixed.

release notes state:

Added - to the list of default missing values. Re-added support for specifying known HTTP headers in the wrong case. Fixed sending of HTTP requests when using a portable class library version of FSharp.Data in the full .NET version.

Here is the final (working) code:

open FSharp.Data

let apiKey = "key goes here"

let postUrl = "https://sb-ssl.google.com/safebrowsing/api/lookup"
let testArray = "2\nhttp://www.google.com/\nhttp://ianfette.org/"

[<EntryPoint>]
let main argv = 

    let foo2 = Http.Request(postUrl, httpMethod = "Post",
        query   = [ "client", "api"; "apikey", apiKey; "appver", "1.5.2"; "pver", "3.0" ],
        body = TextRequest (testArray)
        )

    0

Thank you to Sergey Tihon for finding the error in my URL string in the question.

Upvotes: 2

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