WebGet with a Special Character

DaveBrillhart said:

Anyway, when I pass "name|running" I get an HTTP 400 error.

I assume the 400 is coming back from Garmin Connect (as a proxy for your device) and not the real server? Or is your device connecting directly to the real server via wi-fi?

If you're going through Connect then either Connect itself doesn't like "|" in a URL or it's changing the URL somehow so that the server doesn't like it.

Either way, it seems that either:

- you could submit a bug report to Garmin, if you can narrow down the issue

or

- write a proxy that will access the service for you (so you can talk to your proxy without "|", but the proxy will send "|" as needed)

DaveBrillhart said:

Trying to encode the | character like "%20" is used URLs for a space. That would be %7C or &#124. No joy.

What happens when you do this? Do you still get a 400 or does it fail in a different way?

Strangely.... as you likely know, there are two steps to the process. I perform a makeWebRequest where I pass the username and password with a method =>Comm.HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD_POST and that apparently works. I get a STATUS=200 and the access and refresh tokens back. Then I follow up immediately with a method => Comm.HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD_GET and that fails with the -400 error. The ONLY difference between a successful attempt and these "400" failures is the expanded username with the |running part added to the string. Any thoughts? Yes I go thru GCM.

Are you trying to pass this as part of the url, or in the params field?  Sounds to me like it's part of the url.  Try moving it to params.