[Exist-open] Re: POSTing xquerys

[Jarrett V. <jv...@as...>]

This issue has been resolved.  It was most definately on my end, sorry.  =
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watching the HTTP error message and error code and did not realize that =
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was sending back HTML content elaborating on the "(400) Bad Request" =
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I guess I figured the whole error message would reside in the header and =
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the body.
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I downloaded a very nifty program called Fiddler Http Debugger and it =
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immensly with debugging.  This program is great.  You can construct HTTP =

requests and watch all the HTTP traffic on your system.  It is =
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anybody working with the REST, or SOAP, or RPC api's.  However, it only =
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on windows.  You can check it out at: http://www.bayden.com/fiddler/
Thanks, Jarrett
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> I am having trouble posting xquerys to the rest interface.  If I post =
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simple xpath query it all works fine but
> when I post a multiline xquery I get a "(400) Bad Request" reponse.  =
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tried putting the xquery in a CDATA
> section like in the search.pl file included in the sample directory.  =
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also tried escaping the xquery.=20
> I am using a build from the end of march.
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> Thanks, Jarrett
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