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javajsonresthttp-postspecial-characters
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Reputation: 161

400 bad request [Content-Length: 0,Chunked: false]

I am trying to call an api. Whenever i include 'é' in the request body getting 400 bad request. When i remvove 'é' everything works fine. below is my code and response.

CloseableHttpClient httpClient = (CloseableHttpClient) getHttpClient();
            HttpPost httpPost = getHttpPost("xxx");
            StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(request.toString());
            entity.setChunked(false);
            httpPost.addHeader("content-type", "application/json");
            httpPost.setEntity(entity);
            System.out.println("contentlength = "+String.valueOf(entity.getContentLength()));
            CloseableHttpResponse response = (CloseableHttpResponse) httpClient.execute(httpPost);
           System.out.println("response = "
                + response);

            StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
           System.out.println("statusLine = "
                + statusLine);

            String responseEntity = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
           System.out.println("responseEntity = "
                + responseEntity);

Response :

contentlength = 964 response = HttpResponseProxy{HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request [Content-Length: 0,Chunked: false]} statusLine = HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request responseEntity =

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5321

Answers (2)

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Reputation: 161

StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(request.toString(),"UTF-8");

this solved the issue.

Upvotes: 2

Nadeem Haider
Nadeem Haider

Reputation: 170

Set the content-type to:

"application/json;charset=UTF-8"

when sending the post request in the application you are using.

Upvotes: 1

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