Breaking changes that began December 22.

[Tobiaswk]

I am the maintainer of dartcarwings and today December 22. something has changed in the API.

Calls to the UserLoginRequest.php always returns {status: 404, message: INVALID PARAMS}. I have decompiled the latest release 3.6.1 and I haven't been able to find the cause yet. The base URL is still https://gdcportalgw.its-mo.com/api_v210707_NE/gdc/.

Posting here to make people aware of the issue and possibly work together on a solution.

[Tobiaswk]

I've discovered the issue. The API now requires the User-Agent header to be present in requests.

[filcole]

Hi @Tobiaswk. Thanks for the info. I'm not seeing any issue here. It's still working without User-Agent.

[Tobiaswk]

Could it be the client you're using that automatically adds the User-Agent HTTP header?

Den 26. december 2021 17.16.45 CET, Phil Cole @.***> skrev:

Hi @Tobiaswk. Thanks for the info. I'm not seeing any issue here. It's still working without User-Agent.

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[filcole]

pycarwings2 is sending the following headers to https://gdcportalgw.its-mo.com/api_v210707_NE/gdc/ :

  'User-Agent': ''
  'Content-Length': '79'           <- variable
  'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

[Tobiaswk]

That explains it then. If the User-Agent header is missing the API will fail with the body {status: 404, message: INVALID PARAMS}. If the User-Agent header is present but is containing an empty string it works without issues. Peculiar behavior but it makes sense now.

[filcole]

Thanks @Tobiaswk, thanks for the work on dartcarwings too.