HP ALM Rest API QCSession 411 Authentication

Question

I am using HP-ALM 12.01 which seems to be stock full of issues. I cannot update to another version at this time.

I am trying to get access to the rest api to upload test results automatically from JUnit. I am using the infrastructure shown here (example application -> Infrastructure). From which, my connection scripts passes base64 encoded login info to authentication-point/authenticate and I am retrieving a valid LWSSO cookie. However, when I use this cookie to connect to rest/site-session to receive my QCSession cookies, I am receiving a 411 Length Required error. I have attempted to hard code the Content-Length into the headers as shown here

public void GetQCSession(){
    String qcsessionurl = con.buildUrl("rest/site-session");
    Map requestHeaders = new HashMap();
    requestHeaders.put("Content-Type", "application/xml");
    requestHeaders.put("Accept", "application/xml");
    requestHeaders.put("Content-Length", "0");
    try {
        Response resp = con.httpPost(qcsessionurl, null, requestHeaders);
        con.updateCookies(resp);
        System.out.println(resp.getStatusCode());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

This did not work. I have also tried modifying the infrastructure to automatically inject the Content-Length header, as shown here

    private void prepareHttpRequest(
        HttpURLConnection con,
        Map headers,
        byte[] bytes,
        String cookieString) throws IOException {

    String contentType = null;

    //attach cookie information if such exists
    if ((cookieString != null) && !cookieString.isEmpty()) {

        con.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookieString);
    }

    //send data from headers
    if (headers != null) {

        //Skip the content-type header - should only be sent
        //if you actually have any content to send. see below.
        contentType = headers.remove("Content-Type");

        Iterator>
                headersIterator = headers.entrySet().iterator();
        while (headersIterator.hasNext()) {
            Entry header = headersIterator.next();
            con.setRequestProperty(header.getKey(), header.getValue());
        }
    }

    // If there's data to attach to the request, it's handled here.
    // Note that if data exists, we take into account previously removed
    // content-type.
    if ((bytes != null) && (bytes.length > 0)) {

        con.setDoOutput(true);

        //warning: if you add content-type header then you MUST send
        // information or receive error.
        //so only do so if you're writing information...
        if (contentType != null) {
            con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", contentType);
        }

        OutputStream out = con.getOutputStream();
        out.write(bytes);
        out.flush();
        out.close();
        con.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString(bytes.length));
    } else {
        con.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", "0");
    }
}

which also does not work. note that setRequestProperty simply does a .set(key, value) to a MessageHeader

Has anyone dealt with this issue before or know how to resolve it?

Note that none of these issues occurs with postman. All 4 cookies are generated after a site-session post.

HP ALM Rest API QCSession 411 Authentication

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