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guillermoL
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July 4, 2017
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More details on HttpClientRequest

  • July 4, 2017
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Hi,

I am trying to make a remote call with HttpClientRequest to reach a Web Service. I can see that the http request is made (both POST or GET seems to work ok ), but I am finding some troubles to:

- Get the content of the response itself that is returned from the server. I can not even find the response headers.

- Also, I don't know how to deal with http Basic authentication. Should I set some particular headers?

Do you know of any reference or some help that I can use to !work out both topics below?

Thanks very much in advance

Guillermo

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    Best answer by david--garcia

    Try the following

    var http = new HttpClientRequest("yourhost.com")
    http.execute()
    var response = http.response
    for(var i in response.header)
      logInfo("header[" + i + "] => " + response.header[i])

    Should give you something like

    9 replies

    david--garcia
    david--garcia
    Level 10
    July 4, 2017

    Play around with this in a workflow, you'll get the idea.

    guillermoL
    guillermoLAuthor
    Level 4
    July 4, 2017

    Thanks David,

    Actually this is what I was doing to make the request I meant before, but in the response I can not find anything related to the reply from the server.

    david--garcia
    david--garciaAccepted solution
    Level 10
    July 5, 2017

    Try the following

    var http = new HttpClientRequest("yourhost.com")
    http.execute()
    var response = http.response
    for(var i in response.header)
      logInfo("header[" + i + "] => " + response.header[i])

    Should give you something like

      guillermoL
      guillermoLAuthor
      Level 4
      July 5, 2017

      Thanks David. I was trying to see the contents of the object returned with

      JSON.stringify(response)

      and did not get any output. Now with your help I am receiving what I was expecting.

      Is anyone able to help with the http Basic authentication headers?

      Amit_Kumar
      Amit_Kumar
      Level 10
      July 5, 2017

      You should use the following:

      var API = 'http://yourwebserviceendpoint.com'

      var http = new  HttpClientRequest(API);

      http.method = "GET";

      http.header["Content-Type"] = "application/json";

      http.header["Accept"] = "application/json";

      http.header["Authorization"] = "Basic Z3XNlbmRleHRlc3QxQGdtYWlsLmNvbTpsb2dpbjEyMzQ="; // replace with your authorization code

      http.execute();

      var response = http.response;

      Regards,

      Amit

        ravitejagundu
        ravitejagundu
        Level 3
        March 4, 2022

        Hi Amit,

         

        I am trying to get the access token using the POST method using in the javascript activity with the reference of the above code. I am passing the Client_id, Client_secret, Grant_Type, and Scope in the header only like above. However getting an error like "invalid_client", "unsupported_grant_acess".

         

        Can you please help me with the code for POST method to get the access token with client_id, client_secret, Grant_Type, and Scope to be passed in the body? 

         

        Thanks,

        Raviteja Gundu.

        ravitejagundu
        ravitejagundu
        Level 3
        September 5, 2022

        Hi Team,

         

        The issue is resolved now. We need to send the grant type, client_id, client_secret in body as a query string. We were able to get the access token now.

        http.body="grant_type=<value>&client_id=<value>&client_secret=<value>&scope=<value>";

         

        Hope it will help someone.

         

        Thanks,

        Raviteja Gundu.

        guillermoL
        guillermoLAuthor
        Level 4
        July 5, 2017

        Thanks Amit, works like a charm.

        Regards

        Guillermo

        Marcel_Szimonisz
        Community Advisor
        Marcel_SzimoniszCommunity Advisor
        Community Advisor
        May 22, 2019

        Hello fellow campaigners,

        can we send http request without authorizing the domains in the config?

        I need to ping urls from JS activity

        guillermoL
        guillermoLAuthor
        Level 4
        May 22, 2019

        Hi Marcel,

        I don't think you need to add any authorization as far as I remember but I'm not 100% sure to be honest.

        Regards

        Guillermo

        david--garcia
        david--garcia
        Level 10
        May 22, 2019

        Marcel, you must white list outbound url that you will be making the request to.

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