Question

I am trying to make a REST request to a Neo4j instance hosted via heroku. The server is setup with Basic Authentication.

This is the url I was provided with from Heroku (notice the trailing slash): http://username:[e-mail]:123/db/data/

I’m using RestSharp to connect to this instance. However, RestSharp will remove the trailing slash. Code. The resulting url becomes: http://username:[e-mail]:123/db/data

This results in a HTTP 301 to (notice the trailing slash): http://username:[e-mail]:123/db/data/

The problem is that the Authorization Header is not persisted across redirects MSDN. This redirect results in HTTP 401.

Are there any obvious ways around this? I’ve tried the following:

• Provide 2 trailing slashes /db/data// so RestSharp only removed one slash but leaves one remaining. This doesn’t work as other requests have invalid formats: /db/data//query/stuff
• Use CredentialCache class. This works but results in 2 requests per action (One for the 401 challenge, another one for the response)
• IAuthenticationModlue – Found minimal info on this in MSDN but after trying a custom class, this will still result in the double hop issue noted previously.
• Change the initial rest request to be new RestRequest("/", Method.GET); instead of new RestRequest("", Method.GET); – the only probelm is I don’t want to modify the Open Source project that is in between my app and RestSharp for my specific needs. RestSharp removes all ending slashes

Answer 1

From pete at the Google Group:

One, somewhat annoying, workaround for requesting the “root resource” is
to use: new RestRequest (“/ “), the trailing whitespace will prevent
RestSharp from trimming the slash, but will be ignored by (most)
servers.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/restsharp/8mBmaXksmsg