Download tool Error: Error transferring data: Unrecognized or bad HTTP Content

Pingu

Dear community,

I get the following error when making a API POST request.: "Error transferring data: Unrecognized or bad HTTP Content or Transfer-Encoding"

Unfortunately I can't share to much specifics due to private information. Every API i used before in Alteryx worked like a charm with very little tweaking, but somehow I can not get this one to work.

I tried googling the error, but could not find a fix yet.

This workflow takes a text input for the url.

The method used is POST.

For the headers it uses:

Basic Authentication.

Content-Type: application/json

There's two parameters in the raw body that looks like:

{
"SearchCondition":{"Barcode":"AB123456789YZ"},
"Authentication":{"ABCId":12345,"XYZd":12345,"DEFd":12345}
}

Any suggestoins much appreciated.

morr-co

Hi @Pingu - you may need to refer to the API documentation for help troubleshooting the issue. One thought is that the endpoint may be expecting an array of objects. If that is the case, you may need to reformat the body as shown below. Again, mostly a guess here, the documentation would be able to help you pinpoint the problem.

[{
"SearchCondition":{"Barcode":"AB123456789YZ"},
"Authentication":{"ABCId":12345,"XYZd":12345,"DEFd":12345}
}]