I’m trying to get html from an old machine. I’m able to successfully get a response on the command line with this (and I have a go program working as well): curl 200.200.200.200/aaa/001 --user "user:password" I get the error: “HTTP request failed: bad_request” when trying to do that with an Elixi…

[image] matthias_toepp: 0000: 48 54 54 50 2f 31 2e 30 20 32 30 30 20 4f 4b 0a HTTP/1.0 200 OK. curl appears to tolerate just sending \n, but Hackney will not. The spec requires \r\n.

That error comes from the Hackney machinery responsible for parsing the response; the fact that it’s going down the {:error, HTTPoison.Error} path means it’s failing to parse the opening line of the response - things like missing headers etc would generally result in an HTTPoison.Response with a sta…

Here is the output of curl —trace (showing only the part after the send header): == Info: Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse == Info: HTTP 1.0, assume close after body <= Recv header, 16 bytes (0x10) 0000: 48 54 54 50 2f 31 2e 30 20 32 30 30 20 4f 4b 0a HTTP/1.0 200 OK. <= Recv header, 24 bytes…

It’s kind of marvelous to me that you were able to figure that out. Thanks for the insight. I guess I’ll try a different http library then. Maybe I’ll post this as an issue for Hackney. It kind of makes sense as apparently it’s following the spec which you linked to, but on the other hand, from my …

I opened an issue relating to this on hackney’s github page: https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/issues/723

Just for the record…I’m told by the maintainers that this issue is now resolved!

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Httpoison get request with basic authorization -- "HTTP request failed: bad_request"

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smathy August 6, 2023, 7:55pm 2

No accept header?