How to push notification from rest client for testing purpose

Question

Hi I am trying to push the notification from rest client to android app. I am doing like below -

URL - https://android.googleapis.com/gcm/send
Method - POST
Headers - Authorization: my_server_key

I always get this message

Status Code: 401 Unauthorized Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=0.002 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0

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I am not sure what I am missing & last I am using correct server api key.

Please assist & thanks in advance.

Check this blog post http://vardhan-justlikethat.blogspot.in/2012/10/java-push-notifications-for-ios-and.html but it is in Java — Harsha Vardhan, Sep 24 '14 at 04:59
@HarshaVardhan thanks but it does not have any explanation regarding push the notification from rest client — N Sharma, Sep 24 '14 at 05:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 24 '14 at 06:11

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Push notification uses Web Socket. You cannot do this using HTTP protocol unless you have a server side implementation set up to respond to your request through Web Socket.

answered Sep 24 '14 at 06:11

Fahad Ishaque

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '14 at 10:47

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I set this values in the header then it is working fine for me.

Below is the header key & value.

A) Authorization: & it value likes key=API_KEY

B) Content-Type: application/json

answered Oct 12 '14 at 10:47

N Sharma

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 04 '16 at 09:03

  I hope you are done with your request but it will help to others

You have to send like this
In head
-------
Headder             Value

Authorization      key=your value
Content-Type       application/json

In Body
-------
Something like this
{
  "registration_ids" : ["Your id"],
  "data" : {
    "message":"Your message"
  }
}

Hope it will help

How to push notification from rest client for testing purpose

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