Re: Odd 401 Error

Helge Hess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.opengroupware.xmlrpc.devel
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On 28.01.2004, at 03:00, Adam Williams wrote:
> <0x080DC174[HandleCredentialsClient]> got nil value from XML-RPC ...
> kohocton.morrison.iserv.net

This means that no authentication data was provided.

> - the answer "kohocton.morrison.iserv.net" is correct, but what is the
> other message?

See above.

> In ogo.log I see -
> 192.168.1.20 - - [28/Jan/2004:02:53:48 GMT] "POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.0" 401 0
> 0.003 - - 0
> Jan 28 02:53:52 xmlrpcd [22807]: <>DirectAction>>D decoded XMLRPC call:
> <0x08309CAC[XmlRpcMethodCall]: method=system.getHostName #paras=0>
> 192.168.1.20 - - [28/Jan/2004:02:53:52 GMT] "POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.0" 200
> 145 0.018 - - 0
> - why the 401 error before the successful 200 event?

Read the HTTP spec ;-) The 401 means 'authentication required' - if the 
server returns this, the client will retry with proper credentials. You 
can skip the 401 step by using PreAuthenticate=true in C#/.NET.

> I'm trying to write an C# assembly for accessing OGo, but these 'odd'
> responses are driving me nuts.

Nothing odd about that.

Greets,
   Helge
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