How to set Content-Length when sending POST request in NodeJS?

Question

var https = require(\'https\');  

var p = \'/api/username/FA/AA?ZOHO_ACTION=EXPORT&ZOHO_OUTPUT_FORMAT=JSON&ZOHO_ERROR_FORMAT=JSON&ZOHO_API_KEY=dummy1234&         


        

Answer 1

It turns out that the solution to the given problem, when you do want to make a POST request, is apparently to set the "headers" field of the options object to contain a 'Content-Length' field.

See code here:

How to make an HTTP POST request in node.js?

Answer 2

i think you're missing two things. Assuming p is both your endpoint and your url-encoded payload.

You could split your p variable into the both api path, and the post_data payload you need to write before ending the request.

var p = 'ZOHO_ACTION=EXPORT&ZOHO_OUTPUT_FORMAT=JSON&ZOHO_ERROR_FORMAT=JSON&ZOHO_API_KEY=dummy1234&ticket=dummy9876&ZOHO_API_VERSION=1.0';

var https = require('https');  
var options = {  
  host: 'reportsapi.zoho.com',  
  port: 443,  
  path: '/api/username/FA/AA',  
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
      'Content-Length': Buffer.byteLength(p)
  } 
}
var req = https.request(options, function(res) {  
  console.log("statusCode: ", res.statusCode);  
  console.log("headers: ", res.headers);  
  res.on('data', function(d) {  
    process.stdout.write(d);  
  });  
});
req.write(p);  
req.end();  

Hope it helps!!

Answer 3

I am able to solve this problem by changing the method from POST to GET

Thanks koti

Answer 4

var server = http.createServer();
server.on('request', function(req, res) {

    req.on('data',function(data){

        res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain','Content-Length':data.toString().length+''});
        res.write(data.toString());
        res.end();
    });  

});