/problems/content-length-required

This is a description of a specific error response that you can receive when using the INVERS OneAPI via REST.¹

Check out our API Basics to learn more about the basic structure of all error responses and to find out how you should handle them.

{
    "type": "/problems/content-length-required",
    "type_documentation": "https://developers.invers.com/problems/content-length-required",
    "title": "Content-Length header is required.",
    "status": 411,
    "detail": "…",
    "flow_id": "5e77e3e3-48ab-4955-8ab3-1c62339096ab"
}

Meaning

This problem type occurs if the request is not chunked and the Content-Length header is not specified.

Details

• Use the error response’s type property to handle specific errors and exception handling within your application. It’s comparable to an error code.
• The detail property contains additional, more human-readable information about the problem or error. This is explanatory text and you should not have any exception handling and error handling code depend on it, as it may change.

Detail examples

The following examples are typical texts which you might receive in the error response’s detail property. Note that it is not a complete list of all possible cases. Therefore expect to receive error responses with a detail property value not listed below.

The HTTP request is not chunked and does not specify the Content-Length header.

You sent a request with a body but did not specify the Content-Length header.

Possible solutions:

• Check whether you specified the Content-Length header. If not, specify the header and try again
• Send a request which is chunked. In this case the Content-Length header is omitted

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1. The flow_id is specific to each API call, so it will be different in your case. However, type, title and status will match your actual error response if you receive the error described on this page. ↩