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  1. HBase
  2. HBASE-20715

REST curl command for create namespace with "Content-Type: text/xml" specified (mistakenly) results in a 400 Bad Request

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    • Status: Open
    • Minor
    • Resolution: Unresolved
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      I have a habit of setting "Content-Type: text/xml" for curl commands. Today, I had a bad time debugging the 400 error for below command. Finally, this discussion(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14147?focusedCommentId=15205420&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15205420) helped me in resolving the problem.

      As pointed out by mwarhaftig and misty in their discussion in HBASE-14147, a curl request of the following form will throw a 400 BAD REQUEST

      curl -vi -X POST -H "Accept: text/xml" -H "Content-Type: text/xml"  "http://my_server:20550/namespaces/new_ns2/"
      

      I think we should document this in the description for "Create a new namespace" explicitly mentioning that users should take care "Content-Type" is not set for this particular command. Similarly for "Alter an existing namespace" command.

      • With "Content-Type: text/xml": INCORRECT
        • Command:
          curl -vi --negotiate -u:test -X POST -H "Accept: text/xml" -H "Content-Type: text/xml" http://host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx/namespaces/testspace123
          
        • Output:
          * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
          *   Trying xx.xx.xx.xx...
          * Connected to host-xx-xx-xx-xx (xx.xx.xx.xx) port xxxx (#0)
          > POST /namespaces/testspace123 HTTP/1.1
          > User-Agent: curl/xx.xx.xx
          > Host: host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx
          > Accept: text/xml
          > Content-Type: text/xml
          >
          < HTTP/1.1 401 Authentication required
          HTTP/1.1 401 Authentication required
          < WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
          WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
          < Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth=; Path=/; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; HttpOnly
          Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth=; Path=/; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; HttpOnly
          < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
          Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
          < Cache-Control: must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store
          Cache-Control: must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store
          < Content-Length: 1416
          Content-Length: 1416
          
          <
          * Ignoring the response-body
          * Connection #0 to host host-xx-xx-xx-xx left intact
          * Issue another request to this URL: 'http://host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx/namespaces/testspace123'
          * Found bundle for host host-xx-xx-xx-xx: 0x24b51a0
          * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host host-xx-xx-xx-xx
          * Connected to host-xx-xx-xx-xx (xx.xx.xx.xx) port xxxx (#0)
          * Server auth using GSS-Negotiate with user ''
          > POST /namespaces/testspace123 HTTP/1.1
          > Authorization: Negotiate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          > User-Agent: curl/7.37.0
          > Host: host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx
          > Accept: text/xml
          > Content-Type: text/xml
          >
          < HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
          HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
          < WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          < Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth="u=xxxx&p=xxx/xxxx@xxxx.COM&t=kerberos&e=1528817880151&s=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx="; Path=/; Expires=Tue, 12-Jun-2018 15:38:00 GMT; HttpOnly
          Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth="u=xxxx&p=xxx/xxxx@xxxx.COM&t=kerberos&e=1528817880151&s=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx="; Path=/; Expires=Tue, 12-Jun-2018 15:38:00 GMT; HttpOnly
          < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
          Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
          < Cache-Control: must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store
          Cache-Control: must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store
          < Content-Length: 1392
          Content-Length: 1392
          
          <
          <html>
          <head>
          <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
          <title>Error 400 Bad Request</title>
          </head>
          <body><h2>HTTP ERROR 400</h2>
          <p>Problem accessing /namespaces/testspace123. Reason:
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          * Closing connection 0
          
      • Without "Content-Type: text/xml": CORRECT
        • Command:
          curl -vi --negotiate -u:test -X POST -H "Accept: text/xml" http://host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx/namespaces/testspace123
          
        • Output:
          * Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
          *   Trying xx.xx.xx.xx...
          * Connected to host-xx-xx-xx-xx- (xx.xx.xx.xx) port xxxx (#0)
          > POST /namespaces/testspace123 HTTP/1.1
          > User-Agent: curl/xx.xx.xx
          > Host: host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx
          > Accept: text/xml
          >
          < HTTP/1.1 401 Authentication required
          HTTP/1.1 401 Authentication required
          < WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
          WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
          < Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth=; Path=/; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; HttpOnly
          Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth=; Path=/; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT; HttpOnly
          < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
          Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
          < Cache-Control: must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store
          Cache-Control: must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store
          < Content-Length: 1416
          Content-Length: 1416
          
          <
          * Ignoring the response-body
          * Connection #0 to host host-xx-xx-xx-xx left intact
          * Issue another request to this URL: 'http://host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx/namespaces/testspace123'
          * Found bundle for host host-xx-xx-xx-xx: 0x1768160
          * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host host-xx-xx-xx-xx
          * Connected to host-xx-xx-xx-xx (xx.xx.xx.xx) port xxxx (#0)
          * Server auth using GSS-Negotiate with user ''
          > POST /namespaces/testspace123 HTTP/1.1
          > Authorization: Negotiate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          > User-Agent: curl/xx.xx.0
          > Host: host-xx-xx-xx-xxx:xxxx
          > Accept: text/xml
          >
          < HTTP/1.1 201 Created
          HTTP/1.1 201 Created
          < WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          < Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth="u=xxxx&p=xxx/xxxx@xxxx.COM&t=kerberos&e=1528817880151&s=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx="; Path=/; Expires=Tue, 12-Jun-2018 15:38:00 GMT; HttpOnly
          Set-Cookie: hadoop.auth="u=xxxx&p=xxx/xxxx@xxxx.COM&t=kerberos&e=1528817880151&s=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx="; Path=/; Expires=Tue, 12-Jun-2018 15:38:00 GMT; HttpOnly
          < Location: http://host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx/namespaces/testspace123
          Location: http://host-xx-xx-xx-xx:xxxx/namespaces/testspace123
          < Content-Length: 0
          Content-Length: 0
          
          <
          * Closing connection 0
          

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