Request-URI Too Long: 414

[bhakki]

Hi,

I got this exception Request-URI Too Long: 414 while posting the data through HttpConnection.

I want to post xml data as string format with URL to Webservice.
I did encode the that xml string and post with URL.
If URL length is too long means i got htis exception.

How to resolve this issue?
Is anyother way to posting the data?

[ektasrv]

Hi,

I got this exception Request-URI Too Long: 414 while posting the data through HttpConnection.

I want to post xml data as string format with URL to Webservice.
I did encode the that xml string and post with URL.
If URL length is too long means i got htis exception.

How to resolve this issue?
Is anyother way to posting the data?

If the URL length is too long you get this issue.

Instead of sending this data xml as Query string, with http GET type of request, try to send it as POST request and write the entire data on output stream opened on the connection.

for example see this:

void postViaHttpConnection(String url) throws IOException {
        HttpConnection c = null;
        InputStream is = null;
        OutputStream os = null;
        int rc;

        try {
            c = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(url);  // URL is only URL without any query string

            // Set the request method and headers
            c.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.POST);
            c.setRequestProperty("If-Modified-Since",
                "29 Oct 1999 19:43:31 GMT");
            c.setRequestProperty("User-Agent",
                "Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0");
            c.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", "en-US");

            // Getting the output stream may flush the headers
            os = c.openOutputStream();
            os.write("Put Your XML data here\n".getBytes());
            os.flush();           // Optional, getResponseCode will flush

            // Getting the response code will open the connection,
            // send the request, and read the HTTP response headers.
            // The headers are stored until requested.
            rc = c.getResponseCode();
            if (rc != HttpConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                throw new IOException("HTTP response code: " + rc);
            }

            is = c.openInputStream();

            // Get the ContentType
            String type = c.getType();
            processType(type);

            // Get the length and process the data
            int len = (int)c.getLength();
            if (len > 0) {
                 int actual = 0;
                 int bytesread = 0 ;
                 byte[] data = new byte[len];
                 while ((bytesread != len) && (actual != -1)) {
                    actual = is.read(data, bytesread, len - bytesread);
                    bytesread += actual;
                 }
                process(data);
            } else {
                int ch;
                while ((ch = is.read()) != -1) {
                    process((byte)ch);
                }
            }
        } catch (ClassCastException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Not an HTTP URL");
        } finally {
            if (is != null)
                is.close();
            if (os != null)
                os.close();
            if (c != null)
                c.close();
        }
    }

[bhakki]

Hi,

I got the Internal Server Error: 500 exception.
I used requested method as HttpConnection.POST.

[Tiger79]

well 500 internal server error means that your script on the server is crashing or doing wrong things....
Anyways, such an error is an error on the server side not on your clien-tside, so fix that issue first

[ektasrv]

Hi,

I got the Internal Server Error: 500 exception.
I used requested method as HttpConnection.POST.

Refer to this URL for details about Internal Server Error: 500
http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E500.html

If your server is programed to read the request data from the client's request Query String, check that its not crashing due to the absence of Query String in your POST request.
Check is the server capable for read request parameters i.e. post data from the request object.

[bhakki]

Thanks... Its working fine. I made one mistake in RequestProperty.
But in server side some special symbol added at end of requested parameter. Like infinite '\0' added to end of the requested parameter.
In client side, there no special symbols in requested parameter.

How to resolve this issue?

[ektasrv]

cut paste the codelet here, which you are using to send request parameters on the stream to the server.
Also cut paste what you get on server side frome request objects and how... codelet.

[bhakki]

In client side,
d0699d5e514b93af84bdd3da9ac56e4a
This is the last parameter value to be sent through requested parameter

In server side,
d0699d5e514b93af84bdd3da9ac56e4a\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0......(its showing too long)
This is im get it from server side.

I followed as per as your example code in first reply...

[ektasrv]

In client side,
d0699d5e514b93af84bdd3da9ac56e4a
This is the last parameter value to be sent through requested parameter

In server side,
d0699d5e514b93af84bdd3da9ac56e4a\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0......(its showing too long)
This is im get it from server side.

I followed as per as your example code in first reply...

Try to trim() your string before writing it on the output stream like this:
In headers set the Content-Length

c.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", (xmlDataString.trim()).length());

before -
// Getting the output stream may flush the headers
os = c.openOutputStream();



os.write((xmlDataString.trim()).getBytes());

comment out.flush();

[bhakki]

Thanks Ekta.
Its working as per as ur idea.