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Errors Updating channels

September 18, 2012
10:27 pm

amcclung

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I'm new to this, so I'm probably doing something stupid, but after hours of searching I can't really say what it is I'm doing wrong.

I'm trying to update my channel with some data in a little Processing (Java) app. Both GET and POST are failing on me. Here is the code I'm using for GET:

String data = "field1=" + mCurrentTemperature;
String apiKey = "V8BTEQWV9A8FRQ3U";

mClient = new Client(this, "api.thingspeak.com", 80);
mClient.write("GET /update?key=" + apiKey + "&amp;field1=" + mCurrentTemperature + " HTTP/1.0\n");
mClient.write("Host: 127.0.0.1\n\n");

The response I get is this:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx/0.8.53
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:21:06 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 185
Connection: close
Location: https://www.thingspeak.com/?key=V8BTEQWV9A8FRQ3U&amp;field1=73.292

<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/0.8.53</center>
</body>
</html>

Which seems weird to me.

Perhaps even weirder is when I try to use POST:

String data = "field1=" + mCurrentTemperature;
String apiKey = "V8BTEQWV9A8FRQ3U";
  
mClient = new Client(this, "api.thingspeak.com", 80);
mClient.write("POST /update HTTP/1.1\n");
mClient.write("Host: api.thingspeak.com\n");
mClient.write("Connection: close\n");
mClient.write("X-THINGSPEAKAPIKEY: " + apiKey + "\n");
mClient.write("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n");
mClient.write("Content-Length: ");
mClient.write( data.length() );
mClient.write("\n\n");
mClient.write( data );

The response I get back from that is:

Client says: HTTP/1.1 411 Length Required
Server: nginx/0.8.53
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:24:59 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 181
Connection: close

<html>
<head><title>411 Length Required</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>411 Length Required</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/0.8.53</center>
</body>
</html>

But I've specified Content-Length explicitly. Am I calculating it wrong?

I'm really hoping someone can shed some light on what's going here because I'm totally stumped!

September 19, 2012
11:03 pm