[HTTPCLIENT-1501] Fluent API not accepting form parameters

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.3.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.3.4, 4.4 Alpha1
• Component/s: Fluent HC
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Remis
• Created: 24/Apr/14 16:13
• Updated: 04/May/17 09:49
• Resolved: 25/Apr/14 08:34

Description

I just tried to run the example from http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/fluent.html:

Test.java

public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
// Execute a POST with a custom header through the proxy containing a request body
// as an HTML form and save the result to the file
Request.Post("http://somehost/some-form")
        .addHeader("X-Custom-header", "stuff")
        .viaProxy(new HttpHost("myproxy", 8080))
        .bodyForm(Form.form().add("username", "vip").add("password", "secret").build())
        .execute().saveContent(new File("result.dump"));
}

and I got an unexpected error (I was expecting a connection error, but it seems that HttpClient failed before the request was sent):

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: POST request cannot enclose an entity
	at org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request.body(Request.java:299)
	at org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request.bodyString(Request.java:331)
	at org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request.bodyForm(Request.java:312)
	at org.apache.http.client.fluent.Request.bodyForm(Request.java:316)

Issue Links

• duplicates: HTTPCLIENT-1474 HTTP POST with Fluent HC is broken