API Response filecontent is Empty on Lucee server

Question

When i call the canadaPost api in Coldfusion server that is giving the expected response. But when i Use the same call in Lucee server, It throws the message fail. The response header is "Oracle-iPlanet-Web-Server/7.0" for both servers. But the response mimetype is "application/octet-stream" in Lucee server and "application/vnd.cpc.ship.rate-v3+xml" in coldfusion server.

Is that the cause of the issue? Please give your suggestion about this.

Here is my code:

<cfset local.url = "https://ct.soa-gw.canadapost.ca/rs/ship/price">

<cfhttp url="#local.url#" method="post" result="httpResponse" username="#variables.username#" password="#variables.password#">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept" value="application/vnd.cpc.ship.rate-v3+xml"/>
    <cfhttpparam type="xml" value="#trim(xmlRequest)#"/>
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-type" value="application/vnd.cpc.ship.rate-v3+xml">
</cfhttp>

Attached screenshot which is taken on Lucee server:

Thanks

Does the call succeed, ie 200 OK or are you getting an error? Can you post a dump of the response? — Leigh, Nov 03 '15 at 18:55
Is it an SSL call as cfSimplicity mentioned? (The dump suggests no..) — Leigh, Nov 04 '15 at 17:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 04 '15 at 08:36

There is a bug in Lucee (and previously Railo) whereby the username and password attributes specified in <cfhttp> are not sent when using SSL.

To work around it you can send the Authorization header using <cfhttpparam> as follows:

<cfhttp url="#local.url#" method="post" result="httpResponse">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept" value="application/vnd.cpc.ship.rate-v3+xml"/>
    <cfhttpparam type="xml" value="#trim(xmlRequest)#"/>
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-type" value="application/vnd.cpc.ship.rate-v3+xml">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Authorization" value="Basic #ToBase64( variables.username & ':' & variables.password )#">
</cfhttp>

Yet i facing the same issue when using the Authorization header in . — Sathish Chelladurai, Nov 05 '15 at 05:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 06 '15 at 07:26

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Finally I got the file content value by changed the cfhttpparam type "xml" to "body".

My Fix:

<cfset local.url = "https://ct.soa-gw.canadapost.ca/rs/ship/price">
<cfhttp url="#local.url#" method="post" result="httpResponse" username="#variables.username#" password="#variables.password#">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept" value="application/vnd.cpc.ship.rate-v3+xml"/>
    <cfhttpparam type="body" value="#trim(xmlRequest)#"/>
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-type" value="application/vnd.cpc.ship.rate-v3+xml">
</cfhttp>

Thank you guyz..

answered Nov 06 '15 at 07:26

Sathish Chelladurai

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Is that working without the Authorization header cfhttparam? – CfSimplicity Nov 06 '15 at 08:48
Yes CfSimplicity. It is working without the Authorization header cfhttpparam. – Sathish Chelladurai Nov 06 '15 at 11:30
Does that particular API call actually require Authorization (i.e. the username and password)? – CfSimplicity Nov 06 '15 at 14:32
Yes Cfsimplicity, that is required. – Sathish Chelladurai Nov 12 '15 at 06:55

API Response filecontent is Empty on Lucee server

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