Gotcha! Using HttpContent in AL
I have been spending some time with Business Central, trying to get familiar with the usage of HttpClient and its related objects. That's when I ran across this little issue. I was trying to put custom content in to a HttpClient post action. Long story short, I ended up with this codeline: myHttpContent . WriteFrom ( myText ) ; And that gave me this error message at runtime: The server cannot service the request because the media type is unsupported. After a bit of searching around, I conclude that something like the following should do the trick: myHttpContent . WriteFrom ( myText ) ; myHttpHeaders . Add ( 'Content-Type' , 'text/xml' ) ; I ran it and got the following run time error: Misused header name. Make sure request headers are used with HttpRequestMessage, response headers with HttpResponseMessage, and content headers with HttpContent objects. This was getting unusual! So I bumble around and came up with the following code: