As a follow up to my earlier question: [image] (UndefinedFunctionError) function Simplisafe.ssFreeze/0 is undefined or private Questions Hi All… I’m new to this, and trying to write a little bit of Elixir what will just make a post call to the SimpliSafe API …

[image] Jim: Poison.encode! You are creating a json object but then saying that the Content-Type is "Content-Type" => "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" … that should be application/json or else you can pass a {:form, [{K, V}, ...]} tuple to HTTPoison.post as the body to send a urlencoded fo…

Thanks, I tried making that change but no luck.

According to your curl example, the request should be sent with “application/x-www-form-urlencoded” format. You can try URI.encode_query/1 to encode a map or a keyword list to that format, for example, req_body = URI.encode_query(%{"name" => "who am i", "pass" => "$3cret"}) HTTPoison.post( "http:…

Does HTTPoison handle the session cookies? The docs are a little confusing but it seems that it is supposed to.

No, it doesn’t. Here is the HTTP client module I wrote for a scraper, with HTTPoison for sending requests, and Floki for HTML parsing: defmodule EkangScraper.HttpClient do alias EkangScraper.CookieStore def request_raw(method, url, params) do payload = URI.encode_query(params) cookies …

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Jim January 6, 2018, 4:38pm 8

Thanks very much, I’ll study this over the weekend.