> Verified. It is redirecting to http://www.blogger.com/developers/api/.
> Why?
>
> From: Jon Davis [mailto:jon@accentra.net]
>  Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 3:05 AM
> To: bloggerDev@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [bloggerDev] Blogger API still not working for me :`(
>
> The code is written in C#.
>
> Why is Blogger redirecting to
> http://www.blogger.com/developers/api/ or

> HTML thereof, rather than taking the POST?
>
> By the way, this was working before a few months ago, before
> redirections occurred.
>
> Jon
>
> From: Jon Davis [mailto:jon@accentra.net]
>  Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 12:52 AM
> To: bloggerDev@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [bloggerDev] Blogger API still not working for me :`(
>
> Eh, I have finally gotten around to focusing again on Blogger API
> support in PowerBlog v2. This is the last round of bug fixes I'm
> focusing on in this product before gold release, everything else is
> pretty much done.
>
> There are two serious problems I'm having with the Blogger server. I'd
> thought it was a redirection problem, with .NET framework not
> redirecting its HttpWebRequest properly, but that's apparently not it.
> Actually, there are two problems.
>
> The first problem is that the server is terminating the connection
> before I've finished sending the request (and yes, as far as I know,
> the ContentLength is correct). The second problem is that the crap it
> spits back is just the HTML hyperlink to the documentation.
> It's not letting me submit the XML-RPC invocation at all!
>
> If you have an HTML-capable newsreader, my comments to this group is
> in  bold
>
>             // calling http://api.blogger.com/api, "blogger.getPost",
> ...
>
>             public object Call(Uri uri, string Method, params object[]
> Params) {
>
>                   // build and send request
>
>                   HttpWebRequest req =
>
>                         (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
>
>                   req.Proxy = ProxySettings;
>
>                   req.CookieContainer = Cookies;
>
>                   for (int i=0;i<Certificates.Count;i++) {
>
>                         req.ClientCertificates.Add(Certificates[i]);
>
>                   }
>
>                   req.ContentType = "text/xml";
>
>                   req.Method = "POST";
>
>                   req.UserAgent = UserAgent;
>
>                   for (int i=0;i<Headers.Count;i++) {
>
>                         req.Headers.Add(Headers[i]);
>
>                   }
>
>                   string reqBody = BuildRequest(Method, Params,
> Encoding);
>
>                   // so now reqBody is as follows:
>
>                   // <?xml version="1.0"?>
>                   // <methodCall>
>                   //  <methodName>blogger.newPost</methodName>
>                   //  <params>
>                   //
>   <param><value><string>B9C296C4DC1F09ED61129B1FDBFFE589482E5DAA</
> string></value></param>
>                   //
>   <param><value><string>3603466</string></value></param>
>                   //
>   <param><value><string>[name]</string></value></param>
>                   //
>   <param><value><string>[pw]</string></value></param>
>                   //   <param><value><string>hello, it
> works</string></value></param>
>                   //
>   <param><value><boolean>1</boolean></value></param>
>                   //  </params></methodCall>
>
>                                    System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoding =
> new UTF8Encoding();
>
>                   byte[] byteReqBody=encoding.GetBytes(reqBody);
>
>                   req.ContentLength = byteReqBody.Length;
>
>                   Stream st;
>
>                   WebResponse wr;
>
>                   StreamReader sr;
>
>                   try {
>
>                         st = req.GetRequestStream();
>
>                   } catch (Exception ex) {
>
>                         throw new XmlRpcConnectException(ex.Message,
> ex);
>
>                   }
>
>                   try {
>
>                         st.Write(byteReqBody, 0, byteReqBody.Length);
>
>                         st.Flush();
>
>                   } catch (System.Net.WebException ex) {
>
>                         // dies here, tells me it closed unexpectedly
>
>                         // ... so here I'm just going to ignore it and
> move on
>
>                         if (ex.Message.IndexOf("closed unexpectedly")
> == -1) {
>
>                               throw ex;
>
>                         }
>
>                   }
>
>                   // receive and parse response
>
>                   wr = req.GetResponse();
>
>                   sr = new StreamReader(wr.GetResponseStream());
>
>                   string resp = sr.ReadToEnd();
>
>                   // here I find that the response is just some HTML
>
>                   try { sr.Close();} catch {}
>
>                   try {wr.Close();} catch {}
>
>                   try {st.Close();} catch {}
>
>                   return
> XmlRpcTools.ConvertElement(ParseResponse(resp), false);
>
>             }