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HttpClient post returns bad request in c#, works in postman

I'm trying to access a rest endpoint, https://api.planet.com/auth/v1/experimental/public/users/authenticate. It is expecting json in the request body.

I can get the request to work in Postman but not using c#. Using postman I get the expected invalid email or password message but with my code I get "Bad Request" no matter I try.

Here is the code that makes the request

private void Login()
{
    try
    {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.planet.com/");
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        //ClientDefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("*/*"));
        Data.User user = new Data.User
        {
            email = "myemail@company.com",
            password = "sdosadf"
        };
        var requestMessage = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(user);
        var content = new StringContent(requestMessage, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
        var response = client.PostAsync("auth/v1/experimental/public/users/authenticate", content).Result;
        Console.WriteLine(response.ToString());
    }
    catch (WebException wex )
    {
        MessageBox.Show(wex.Message) ;
    }
}
class User
{
    public string email;
    public string password;
}

Here are screen grabs form Postman that are working enter image description here

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Solution

  • The way to get this to work was to alter the content header "content-type". By default HTTPClient was creating content-type: application/json;characterset= UTF8. I dropped and recreated the content header without the characterset section and it worked.

    content.Headers.Remove("Content-Type");
content.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json");