Are GET request header fields and values case-sensitive? - c

I'm working on a programing assignment regarding using GET request.
I am using C.
I wonder if any headers fields and values of GET packet have to be capitalized?
For example:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
vs
get / HTTP/1.1
connection: keep-alive

HTTP method names are case-sensitive:
The Method token indicates the method
to be performed on the resource
identified by the Request-URI. The
method is case-sensitive.
HTTP header names are case-insensitive.

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Arduino Ethercard - return content of website

I am trying to access a website, and then return whatever it outputs in the body -> eg. "Success" or "Failed".
When I try with my code, I am getting the following back.
<<< REQ >>>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:36:31 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d8a4fc3c84849b6786c6ca890b92e2cc01409420191023; expires=Mon, 23-Dec-2019 23:50:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.japseyz.com; HttpOnly
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.28
Server.
My code is: http://pastebin.com/WwWbnLNn
If all you want to know is whether the HTTP transaction succeeded or failed, then you need to examine the HTTP Response code... which is in the first line of the response. In your example it is "200"... the human readable interpretation of it is "OK".
Here is a link to most of the HTTP 1.1 response codes: w3.org-rfc2616 RespCodes
Your question indicated you wanted to extract this information from the "body"...
... but that information is not located in the "body", it is in the first response
header, as described above.
have you tried ethercard samples? there is a webclient sample, in which you can find procedure called CALLBACK - in that procedure you can process data stored in buf variable.
in your case you need to look for first empty line, which tells you that headers has been sent and page content(what php writes to the page i.e.) follows.
how familiar are you at pointers? how deep you do need to process the page output? i.e. OK or ERROR is enough, or you do need to pass same parameters back to duino?

Transactions using ODataControllers

Typically, an ODataController is set up to handle CRUD and other actions for one underlying DB entity. This works well when you are updating one or more customer orders, for example.
However, how do you commit changes to two or more entities in one transaction - for example, update a customer order with several related customer order details? Can this (or should this) be done using one ODataController? Or, is it better to put a service component on top of the ODataControllers, which wraps the entire transaction?
The Batch feature is designed to handle multi-operations within one http request. The batch requests look like:
POST /service/$batch HTTP/1.1
Host: host
OData-Version: 4.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary=batch_36522ad7-fc75-4b56-8c71-56071383e77b
--batch_36522ad7-fc75-4b56-8c71-56071383e77b
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary=changeset_77162fcd-b8da-41ac-a9f8-9357efbbd
--changeset_77162fcd-b8da-41ac-a9f8-9357efbbd
Content-Type: application/http
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-ID: 1
POST /service/Customers HTTP/1.1
Host: host
Content-Type: application/atom+xml;type=entry
Content-Length: ###
<AtomPub representation of a new Customer>
--changeset_77162fcd-b8da-41ac-a9f8-9357efbbd
Content-Type: application/http
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-ID: 2
POST $1/Orders HTTP/1.1
Host: host
Content-Type: application/atom+xml;type=entry
Content-Length: ###
<AtomPub representation of a new Order>
--changeset_77162fcd-b8da-41ac-a9f8-9357efbbd--
--batch_36522ad7-fc75-4b56-8c71-56071383e77b--
Each ChangeSet must be treated as a transaction.
Here is a sample for your reference:http://aspnet.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#Samples/WebApi/OData/v3/ODataEFBatchSample/.

setting HTTP Header for angularjs REST calls

I'm trying to set a HTTP Header for all my REST calls with following code:
app.factory('authInterceptor', function ($rootScope, $q, $window) {
return {
request: function (config) {
config.headers = config.headers || {};
config.headers.Authorization = '12345678';
return config;
},
response: function (response) {
if (response.status === 401) {
// handle the case where the user is not authenticated
}
return response || $q.when(response);
}
};
});
app.config(function ($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.interceptors.push('authInterceptor');
});
I currently don't have any authorization enabled on the server.
when I leave out the line "config.headers.Authorization = '12345678';" , then the REST call works well and I get my results. In the JS console I see
GET http://localhost:8080/rest/club/1 [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 7ms]
But when I put this line in to set the Header field, then I see following request in the javascript console
OPTIONS http://localhost:8080/rest/club/1 [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 2ms]
Why does setting Authorization Header change my method from "GET" to "OPTIONS"? And how can I set a custom Header and my request still work?
changing it to
config.headers["X-Testing"] = '12345678';
had the same result.
EDIT:
I tried the answer, I'm setting following HTTP Headers in the server:
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost");
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Header", "X-Testing");
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET, OPTIONS");
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Max-Age", 1728000);
my REST server is running on port 8080, the webserver for the html/JS on port 8000 (initially worked with file://... but moved to a separate webserver because Origin was null)
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
or
response.getHeaders().putSingle("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://localhost:8000");
didn't work either.
Must I return any content in the OPTIONS response? I tried 200 OK with the same content as the GET, but I also tried 204 No Content.
2nd EDIT:
here is what firefox sends and receives for the OPTIONS method:
You need to enable CORS in your REST service. As explained in MDN, once you add a custom header, the http protocol specifies performing a preflight,
Preflighted requests
Unlike simple requests (discussed above), "preflighted" requests first
send an HTTP request by the OPTIONS method to the resource on the
other domain, in order to determine whether the actual request is safe
to send. Cross-site requests are preflighted like this since they may
have implications to user data. In particular, a request is
preflighted if:
It uses methods other than GET, HEAD or POST. Also, if POST is used
to send request data with a Content-Type other than
application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, or text/plain,
e.g. if the POST request sends an XML payload to the server using
application/xml or text/xml, then the request is preflighted. It sets
custom headers in the request (e.g. the request uses a header such as
X-PINGOTHER)
Addition to enabling CORS you also need to add a Access-Control-Allow-Headers header tag to accept your custom header (for the OPTIONS response). This is visible in the MDN Example,
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:15:39 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.61 (Unix)
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://foo.example
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST, GET, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: X-PINGOTHER
Access-Control-Max-Age: 1728000
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/plain
UPDATE
As mentioned in the comments, the OPTION response's Access-Control-Allow-Headers is missing the last "s".

HTTP POST mutli part "BAD REQUEST"

I'm trying to upload a file using POST
here's my request :
POST /upload.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------552335022525
Content-Length: 192
-----------------------------552335022525
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="userfile"; filename="12.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain
blabla
-----------------------------552335022525--
Using HTTP live headers firefox plugin everything works
but when putting it a char *buffer and send it with winsocksapi I get 400 Bad Request error
You need a blank line between the headers and the payload.
Content-Length: 192
-----------------------------552335022525
This is part of the HTTP protocol. HTTP request headers end with the first empty line (CR-LF by itself.) What you are sending is resulting in the string
-----------------------------552335022525
being taken (along with the following two lines) as a request header which, of course, it isn't. The server can't make head or tail of that, so it responds with 400 Bad Request.
Also, sending the Content-length is not necessary with multipart/form-data, nor even a good idea, as the wrong value could create problems. The MIME multipart format is self describing.

How to define received datatype, in backbone.js fetch()?

fetch data from server returns me json data as a string datatype rather than as application/json datatype, as a result the collection does not get refreshed.
I have tried giving the jquery.ajax option contentType:"application/json" to the fetch options, but still does not work.
how can i make it work? do i send a mimetype from the server? if so, how?
i am using json_encode on the data sent.
preloader.fetch({
contentType:'application/json'
});
preloader is an instance of my collection.
edit:
my template for a subview was not getting detected as i had kept it out of the masterview's $el element, corrected it, and now i am getting underscore.js error, that
str is null in
str.replace(/\\/g, '\\\\') //at line 913
is this because the backbone app is not taking it as a json object?
Request headers
Connection close
Content-Type text/html
Date Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:00:58 GMT
Server Apache
Transfer-Encoding chunked
Vary Accept-Encoding
Response headers
has the line
Accept application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
means it is a json, then what is the problem?
I think the contentType option is for the request (your request).
Try dataType:"json".

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