403 Error Dont know whats wrong.

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Hi,

I am quite new to ruby and am programming an application to send sms using rest_client gem. I so far have code on one of my modules which tries to send an sms to a number. It gives the 403 error -

RestClient::Forbidden in SMSController#index

403 Forbidden Rails.root: /Users/user1/Desktop/rails_projects/sms_app

My code in the module looks as follows - before adding this code i had a simple enter number and enter message text boxes with the usual edit/add/delete options.

require 'rubygems' require 'rest_client'

class SMS < ActiveRecord::Base

      API_URL = 'http://services.xxxx.com/SMS’       API_KEY = '000000000'       RestClient.post 'API_URL/TXT/XXXX/07996750812/wakeup/API_KEY', :number => '079945460812', :nested => { :message => 'working from inside' }     RestClient.get 'https://yyy@gmail.com:password@API_URL' end

My user name is in the form of an email. let me what you think the problem would be. thanks :slight_smile:

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Hi,

I am quite new to ruby and am programming an application to send sms using rest_client gem. I so far have code on one of my modules which tries to send an sms to a number. It gives the 403 error -

RestClient::Forbidden in SMSController#index

403 Forbidden Rails.root: /Users/user1/Desktop/rails_projects/sms_app

My code in the module looks as follows - before adding this code i had a simple enter number and enter message text boxes with the usual edit/add/delete options.

require 'rubygems' require 'rest_client'

class SMS < ActiveRecord::Base

  API\_URL = &#39;http://services.xxxx.com/SMS'
  API\_KEY = &#39;000000000&#39;
  RestClient\.post &#39;API\_URL/TXT/XXXX/07996750812/wakeup/API\_KEY&#39;,

:number => '079945460812', :nested => { :message => 'working from inside' } RestClient.get 'https://...@gmail.com:password@API_URL' end

My user name is in the form of an email. let me what you think the problem would be. thanks :slight_smile:

First off, it's a bit odd to be making those calls to restclient where you're making them - they'll happen when the class gets loaded, which isn't really under your control.

Secondly you don't seem to be using ruby's interpolation properly - API_URL isn't getting replaced by the value of that constant

Lastly, @ is a special character in a url (since it marks the separation between the end of the password and the rest of the url), so you'll need to escape the literal @ in your username (I'd be surprised if there wasn't a way in rest client to just supply a username and password rather than have to do that mangling yourself)

Fred