Question

I am trying to post to a URL using AFNetworking and no matter what I do I keep getting the error:

Error Code: -1011 - Expected status code in (200-299), got 404

My code is as follows:

NSString *baseurl = @"http://mysiteurl";

NSString *path = @"/user/register/";

AFHTTPClient *client = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:baseurl]];
[client registerHTTPOperationClass:[AFJSONRequestOperation class]];
//[client setAuthorizationHeaderWithUsername:@"myusername" password:@"mypassword"];

[client postPath:path parameters:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:_userName,@"user", _email, @"email",_password,@"password", nil] success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id JSON) {

    //NSLog(@"sjson: %@", [JSON valueForKeyPath:@"entries"]);
    NSLog(@"sjson: %@", JSON);        
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
    NSLog(@"Error Code: %i - %@",[error code], [error localizedDescription]);
}];

When I go to http://mysiteurl/user/register/ directly I am able to see JSON.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

When I go to http://mysiteurl/user/register/ directly I am able to see JSON.

If you’re doing this through a browser, you are making a GET request, whereas in your code, you are making a POST request.

A 404 is not just the visible address, it includes the HTTP method as well. You need to make sure that your server responds to a POST at http://mysiteurl/user/register/. Depending on your framework (e.g. Rails), you may have to add [client setDefaultHeader:@"Accept" value:@"text/json"] to get the correct route.