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c#http-headershttpclienthttp-status-code-401
Paparis
Paparis

Reputation: 956

StatusCode 401 Reason Unauthorized when calling PostAsync WebRequest

I am new to the C# HttpClient class and I hope you guys & gals can help me out with my problem. I am getting the StatusCode 401 when trying to call the PostAsync Method. Here's my Code

public WebClient(HttpClient httpClient)
    {
        string webHost = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["webHost"];
        string webApiKey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["webApikey"];

        _httpClient = httpClient;
        _httpClient.BaseAddress = new Uri(webHost);
        _httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        _httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/xml"));

        _httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("x-coupa-api-key", "=" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["coupaApikey"]);
        System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = System.Net.SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
    }

public Tuple<bool, Task<HttpResponseMessage>> Comment(comment comment)
    {
        try
        {
            string commentUrl = string.Format("{0}api/comments/", _webHost);
            var responseMessage = _httpClient.PostAsync(commentUrl, CreateHttpContent(comment));
            Log.Error("Response message: " + responseMessage.Result);
            return new Tuple<bool, Task<HttpResponseMessage>>(responseMessage.Result.IsSuccessStatusCode, responseMessage);

        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Log.Error("Call to Web failed.", ex);
            throw;
        }

    }

private static HttpContent CreateHttpContent(comment data)
    {
        var format = "application/xml";

        return new StringContent(Common.SerializeUtf8(data), Encoding.UTF8, format);
    }

So I am sending an xml with a POST to a webhost - and i get the following Result from PostAsync:

Response message: 

StatusCode: 401, ReasonPhrase: 'Unauthorized', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.StreamContent, Headers:
{
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  Status: 401 Unauthorized
  X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
  X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
  X-Request-Id: 53e17930-f9fe-4ec4-ae5b-b772ce5f308e
  X-Runtime: 0.025822
  Cache-Control: no-cache
  Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 06:07:39 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7258

Answers (1)

Paparis
Paparis

Reputation: 956

Found the solution. Shouldn't have used the Authorization, just "add header":

_httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-coupa-api-key", ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["webApikey"]);

Upvotes: 1

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