Can't get the API to work

[elssar]

I'm having problems getting the API to work. I get a 200, with the data as html. But when I check my stats on the website, nothing has changed.

I'm using Python, and the requests library. My code is

req= post('https://habitapp.com/v1/users/<user-id>/tasks/<task-name>/up', data={'apiToken': <api-token>}, headers= {'user-agent': 'pyhabit', 'content-type': 'application/json'})

The response I get is -

>>> req.status_code
200
>>> req.headers
{'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'expires': 'Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:07:37 GMT', 'vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'server': 'nginx/1.2.6', 'last-modified': 'Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:07:26 GMT', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'etag': '"0-1360368446000"', 'cache-control': 'public, max-age=604800', 'date': 'Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:07:37 GMT', 'x-powered-by': 'Express', 'content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'}

I thought it might be because task name, and task-id are different, so after a digging around, I found some habit-ids and tried using them in place of task name - didn't work either.

[lefnire]

oh wow. yeah, everything looks right - it's definitely taskId instead of taskName (but if the task id doesn't exist in the system, it will create a new task with that id). I'll check into this

[elssar]

Oops, I didn't convert my payload to json.
I thought requests would automatically do that. Was wrong. Now it works.

[switz]

Well this is still an issue. It shouldn't return 200 for a malformed request. Looking into this.

[lefnire]

had to enforce application/Json for api requests to bypass splash.html
On Feb 13, 2013 6:26 AM, "Daniel Saewitz" notifications@github.com wrote:

Well this is still an issue. It shouldn't return 200 for a malformed
request. Looking into this.

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