What is “406-Not Acceptable Response” in HTTP?

Question

In my Ruby on Rails application I tried to upload an image through the POSTMAN REST client in Base64 format. When I POST the image I am getting a 406 Not Acceptable Resp

Answer 1

You mentioned you're using Ruby on Rails as a backend. You didn't post the code for the relevant method, but my guess is that it looks something like this:

def create
  post = Post.create params[:post]
  respond_to do |format|
    format.json { render :json => post }
  end
end

Change it to:

def create
  post = Post.create params[:post])
  render :json => post
end

And it will solve your problem. It worked for me :)

Answer 2

In my case, I added:

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

solved my problem completely.

Answer 3

const request = require('request');

const headers = {
    'Accept': '*/*',
    'User-Agent': 'request',
};

const options = {
    url: "https://example.com/users/6",
    headers:  headers
};

request.get(options, (error, response, body) => {
    console.log(response.body);
});

Answer 4

In my case for a API in .NET-Core, the api is set to work with XML (by default is set to response with JSON), so I add this annotation in my Controller :

[Produces("application/xml")]
public class MyController : ControllerBase {...}

Thank you for putting me on the path !

Answer 5

You can also receive a 406 response when invalid cookies are stored or referenced in the browser - for example, when running a Rails server in Dev mode locally.

If you happened to run two different projects on the same port, the browser might reference a cookie from a different localhost session.

This has happened to me...tripped me up for a minute. Looking in browser > Developer Mode > Network showed it.

Answer 6

If you are using 'request.js' you might use the following:

var options = {
  url: 'localhost',
  method: 'GET',
  headers:{
    Accept: '*/*'
  }
}

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  ...
})