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Passing data using application/x-www-form-urlencoded using IF_HTTP_CLIENT

archanapillai — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:07:58 GMT

Dear All,

I am new to this. I have one requirement to pass data in urlencoded format. I am using one url to retrieve token. In this URL, I am passing data using IF_HTTP_CLIENT with content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded in ABAP program. My program is working fine in postman. In postman, I am passing content type in Header and certain fields in Body part of postman ( i.e. grant_type, client_id, client_secret ) and it is working ok in postman, But when I am passing it in ABAP. it is giving me 404 error. I

I am passing below data:

lv_body = 'grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=ABCD&client_secret=ABCDEFGHIJK≻ope=openid'.

LO_HTTP_CLIENT->PROPERTYTYPE_LOGON_POPUP = LO_HTTP_CLIENT->CO_DISABLED.
LO_HTTP_CLIENT->REQUEST->SET_METHOD( 'POST' ).
LO_HTTP_CLIENT->REQUEST->SET_HEADER_FIELD(
NAME = 'Content-Type'
VALUE = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' ).

CALL FUNCTION 'SCMS_STRING_TO_XSTRING'

EXPORTING
TEXT = LV_BODY
IMPORTING
BUFFER = LV_BODYX.

CALL METHOD LO_HTTP_CLIENT->REQUEST->SET_DATA( LV_BODYX ).

Regards,

Archana

Re: Passing data using application/x-www-form-urlencoded using IF_HTTP_CLIENT

Sandra_Rossi — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:08:02 GMT

404 means page not found, so it's probably an issue with the URL (what you didn't post).

Do an ICF Client trace (SICF > menu) to know the exact HTTP request sent, compare with Postman, and tell us what is different between the 2 HTTP requests.

Re: Passing data using application/x-www-form-urlencoded using IF_HTTP_CLIENT

javier_alonso63 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 09:51:23 GMT

Try passing the parameters as form fields instead of body data.

cl_http_client=>create_by_url( EXPORTING url = ws_url IMPORTING client = DATA(http_client) ).

http_client->request->set_method( if_http_request=>co_request_method_post ).
http_client->request->set_header_field( name = 'Content-Type' value = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' ).
http_client->request->set_form_field( name = 'client_id' value = 'ABCD' ).
http_client->request->send( ).

I currenlty have an url-encoded WebService which I pass the parameters this way and works fine.

Re: Passing data using application/x-www-form-urlencoded using IF_HTTP_CLIENT

pillaiarchana — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 10:01:48 GMT

Hi sandra.rossi & javier_alonso,

Thanks for your replies. I found an issue with URL which i am pssing to create http_client. After correcting it is working fine.

Thanks once again.

Regards,

Archana