Question

I am trying to contact an API by posting the parameters in the URL. I am unsure whether it will respond in XML or JSON, but it is one of the two, however, it says there is an error.

This is an example of what I’m submitting. I am receiving this in response:

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 1 at column 1: Document is empty
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

I do not know what is going on… I followed the syntax of the POST I believe, my only remaining question about the syntax would be whether the ? is in the right spot. The page API does work when I POST using PHP…

Or maybe it is working, the browser just isn’t capable of understanding an XML or JSON response? (I’m using chrome so I do not think this is the issue)

Otherwise, if anyone has any insight on this, I’d be greatful

A different browser yields this error:

 XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: 
Line Number 1, Column 1:Array
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Answer 1

While the syntax of the URL does seem to be fine, you imply that the API expects the parameters in POST. Adding them to the actual URL means the parameters are passed in GET, rather than POST.

You could try to test this by making a little HTML form containing all the relevant parameters and passing them to this API via POST, and see if that gives you the expected result.