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Re: vbscript post to REST API HELP

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Subject Re: vbscript post to REST API HELP
From "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net>
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Date 2017-02-23 14:06 +0100
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Scot Needy <scotrn@gmail.com> wrote on 23 Feb 2017 in
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript: 

> On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 4:50:17 AM UTC-5, Evertjan. wrote:
>> Scot Needy <scotrn@gmail.com> wrote on 23 Feb 2017 in
>> microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript: 
>> 
>> > Thanks Evertjan I caught that after I posted. So many changes just to
>> > try and get this working. 
>> > 
>> > Still getting 80004005 "unspecified error" I suspect it has something
>> > to do with the Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP methods i'm using but I'm having
>> > trouble finding good examples. 
>> [..] 
>> > strJSONToSend = "{aligned_resource"": ""/device/17653"", ""message"":
>> > ""Taskname Failed""}" 
>> 
>> strJSONToSend = "{""aligned_resource"":.....
>> 
>> But probably, that is not what thows the error.
>> 
>> Please start by debugging, programming in breakpoints, etc.
>> 
>> We should not do this testing for you.

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> Your correction is not what I posted and does not address the error as
> you stated.

> Your assuming I'm just throwing this out there without
> debugging ? 

Well, what else could I assume 
if you do not give the fact and the the results of your debugging. 

> I'm reaching out because I have spent the last 20+ hours
> trying to get a simple curl one line into vbs.
> 
> My problem was the base64 encoded string I created it had encoded the
> ":" and gave me 2 incorrect characters in the string. 

That is rather a different story, isn't it?

Did you give the code for that creation?

> I changed it to
> what I captured and the code now works but needs error checking.  I
> tried getting and example I saw to dynamically encode but failed
> completely.

Why would it need error-checking if it works?

Please specify what error[s] you expect to catch.

> Removed credentials from the open statement and using the
> encoded string only.
> xmlhttp.open "POST", url, false 
> xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Authorization", "Basic ******encoded
> string****" 
> xmlhttp.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"

> xmlhttp.send(strJSONToSend)
> 
> Anyone have good working example of error condition checks ?  I've tried
> all the ones I found on Google.   

See above. 

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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vbscript post to REST API   HELP scotrn@gmail.com - 2017-02-22 12:17 -0800
  Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-02-22 23:06 +0100
    Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP Scot Needy <scotrn@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 17:14 -0800
      Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP Scot Needy <scotrn@gmail.com> - 2017-02-22 21:22 -0800
        Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-02-24 08:20 +0700
          Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP Scot Needy <scotrn@gmail.com> - 2017-02-23 20:03 -0800
      Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-02-23 10:50 +0100
        Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP Scot Needy <scotrn@gmail.com> - 2017-02-23 04:54 -0800
          Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-02-23 14:06 +0100
            Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP Scot Needy <scotrn@gmail.com> - 2017-02-23 09:10 -0800
              Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-02-23 20:02 +0100
              Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-23 17:19 -0500
                Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP Scot Needy <scotrn@gmail.com> - 2017-02-23 19:32 -0800
                Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-23 23:07 -0500
                Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-02-24 09:17 +0100
                Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-02-24 10:22 -0500
  Re: vbscript post to REST API   HELP davidjsmith10@gmail.com - 2020-01-13 09:15 -0800

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