500 error on api request. works fine when called through browser

Question

Hello I have an api which authenticates the user login . Now when I hit this rest service in my browser it displays the result but when I try to do this using my code it gives in 500 error. Please help me with this .

My Api: http://abhinavevent2014.sched.org/api/auth/login?api_key=1309658400d57c8cfc6081f8361de52c&username=abhinavm@test.com&password=test

string url = @"http://abhinavevent2014.sched.org/api/auth/login?api_key=1309658400d57c8cfc6081f8361de52c&username=abhinavm@test.com&password=test";


            Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8");
            WebRequest requestfriend = WebRequest.Create(url);
            WebResponse responsefriend = requestfriend.GetResponse(); (  This is where it blows)
            Stream streamResponse = responsefriend.GetResponseStream();
            StreamReader streamReaderResponse = new StreamReader(streamResponse, encode);
            jsonResult = streamReaderResponse.ReadToEnd();

            return jsonResult.ToString();

Can you give example output of the failure? – Daniel Feb 28 '14 at 02:17 — Daniel, Feb 28 '14 at 02:17
yikes! You should not post your api_key on a public forum. – software evolved Oct 09 '14 at 15:17 — software evolved, Oct 09 '14 at 15:17
Did you resolve this??? I have the same problem – thur Aug 30 '16 at 01:44 — thur, Aug 30 '16 at 01:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '16 at 06:40

You need to use User-Agent in the headers, as the documentation says:

You must also send requests with a User-Agent in the headers, as Sched filters out requests with no User-Agent. Sched API Doc

Browser automatically does that, so it can retrieve the data.

500 error on api request. works fine when called through browser

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