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Topic: HTTP XML API help

Posted By: vassabi
Subject: HTTP XML API help
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 9:06am

Hi boRg thanks for nice feature, but where can I find the documentation about how to use this API ?

Thanks

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Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 9:39am

Sorry just noticed that

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 9:44am

The documentation is found by poiting your browser at the API, it comes with a load of test forms for each method so you can see them working.

The error message that you get suggests that you have updated your includes/setup_options_inc.asp file to the latest version.

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Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 9:53am

And is there any db changes since 9.06?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 9:57am

No, database changes only happen between major releases.

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Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 10:04am

Thanks boRg

but I still have trouble testing the API

I fill the test forms but it gives me this error

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location:
Line Number 1, Column 65:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <font face="Arial" size=2>error '80020009'</font>
----------------------------------------------------------------^

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 10:40am

You would need to do a view source to see what the actual server error is, that should help workout why you are getting an error.

Maybe some info on which action you are testing may help.

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Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 11:05am

Any action I tried gives this error

view source is given bellow
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251" ?> <font face="Arial" size=2>error '80020009'</font>
<p>
<font face="Arial" size=2>/forum/HttpAPI.asp</font><font face="Arial" size=2>, line 177</font>

Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 11:06am

I use Russian language pack in my forum can this cause the error?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 11:14am

I think you may have missed out parts of the error message so it's a bit hard to work exactly why you get the error.

However, I can tell you line 177 reads in Salt value for the admin password.

Check in your database that you have a main admin account at Author_ID 1 in the tblAuthor table of your database. This is the built in admin account which the API uses to log you in. If this account has been removed for some reason then you would not be able to use this API.

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Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 11:21am

Yea the problem is there, I removed Admin account, the account I use has ID = 3, will it work if I just add new account with ID = 1 ?

Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 11:29am

BTW why not just check if the given username and password belongs to someone with admin priveleges?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 January 2008 at 11:32am

It would work if you change the ID = 1 to ID = 3

The reason for only using the built in Admin account is to reduce the surface attack area.

Also the built in admin account has privileges and options other admin accounts do not have, just like for this, so it is not recommended that you remove this hardcoded account built.

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Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 14 January 2008 at 12:33pm

Dear boRg

I have some methods works ok but some of them still has trouble, the method wich creates a forum member is not working on my side it gives the error, the view source shows the following

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251" ?> <font face="Arial" size=2>
<p>Microsoft VBScript runtime </font> <font face="Arial" size=2>error '800a01f4'</font>
<p>
<font face="Arial" size=2>Variable is undefined: 'isBool'</font>
<p>
<font face="Arial" size=2>/forum/HttpAPI.asp</font><font face="Arial" size=2>, line 1130</font>

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 January 2008 at 12:38pm

Please see the following post:-
http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=25135 -
http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=25135

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Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 14 January 2008 at 1:18pm

Thanks but I guess that's not all

Variable is undefined: 'BoolC'

line 1151

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 January 2008 at 1:27pm

em, looks like it may need to wait for version 10 for the XML API to work then as it looks like it is relying on more new functions that anticipated.

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Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 14 January 2008 at 1:29pm

that's sad :-(

Posted By: vassabi
Date Posted: 14 January 2008 at 1:46pm

boRg could you please provide the implementation of that method as well for me, because I have done a huge work of creating class library in ASP.net which uses this API and I do not wish to wait until the release of v10, which I guess will not happen so soon.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 January 2008 at 1:57pm

You could do a search and replace, for BoolC to CBool

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