Re: Why does this https post request always return "404 Not Found"

FROM : Steve Christensen
DATE : Sun Jun 22 17:21:09 2008

Hmmm... Google not working?

- <http://del.icio.us/help/thirdpartytools> lists the APIs for a 
variety of programming languages at the bottom of the page.

- <http://www.scifihifi.com/cocoalicious/> is an open source Cocoa 
del.icio.us client, so you should be able to see what they did.


On Jun 21, 2008, at 10:14 PM, an0 wrote:

> Cool, it works. Thanks a lot.
> But as to APIs, I really can't find the login API, or I would of
> course use that instead of posting forms.
> Can you tell me where the login API is?
>
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Jens Alfke <<email_removed>> 
> wrote:

>> This is pretty weird. After some experimenting, I narrowed it down 
>> to the
>> value of the User-Agent header. I think the del.icio.us server is 
>> checking
>> that header and returning a 404 if it doesn't like it. And it 
>> doesn't seem
>> to like CFNetwork's default user-agent header, though it likes 
>> Safari and
>> curl.
>>
>> You can programmatically set the "User-Agent" header value to 
>> "Mozilla/5.0
>> (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 
>> (KHTML, like
>> Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.20" and the result should work.
>>
>> On the other hand, why are you trying to log into del.icio.us 
>> using forms
>> and cookies as though you were a web browser? That site already 
>> has a pretty
>> comprehensive API for applications to access it; you should use that
>> instead. (That may in fact be what they're trying to tell you by 
>> blocking
>> your request.)