A request that should return an HTTP 405 instead returns status 0

[jmlsf]

If I run this simple code:

(defn testcall [] (go (prn (<! (http/post "http://www.google.com")))))

I get this response:

{:status 0,
 :success false,
 :body "",
 :headers {},
 :trace-redirects ["http://www.google.com" "http://www.google.com"],
 :error-code :http-error,
 :error-text " [0]"}

This result seems incorrect in several respects:

1. We should be getting an HTTP 405.
2. Even if there were some kind of network error, the GCL documentation states that we should be getting a :status -1, not a :status 0.
3. What's up with that :error-text " [0]"? That looks like some kind of interop error.

[leourbina]

@jmlsf An HTTP status of 0 means that the request failed and received 0 bytes as a response. If you look at your console you'll probably find something like this

In this case the request failed because Google does not have CORS headers on google.com (probably a good thing). So even though you can POST to it from curl and other similar clients, doing so from the browser will fail for security reasons. Hopefully that helps.

[jmlsf]

What about the :error-text? Is that normal?

[leourbina]

Yep. Just look at your network tab and you'll see that the request was rejected. You're not getting anything back from the server. Consider closing this ticket as this is not a bug.