C# Azure / Postman - 405 Method not Allowed error on POST

Question

I followed the following tutorial and set up my azure backend .

https://adrianhall.github.io/develop-mobile-apps-with-csharp-and-azure/chapter2/custom/

I then installed postman for the first time and set :

http://apptest.azurewebsites.net/.auth/login/custom

{"username" : "adrian" , "password" : "supersecret"}

Json (application/json)

However , i keep getting this error :

405 Method not Allowed

{
  "Message": "The requested resource does not support http method 'GET'."
}

Backend Code :

using System;
using System.IdentityModel.Tokens;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Claims;
using System.Web.Http;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using AppTestService.Models;
using AppTestService.DataObjects;

using Microsoft.Azure.Mobile.Server.Login;


namespace AppTestService.Controllers
{
    [Route(".auth/login/custom")]
    public class CustomAuthController : ApiController
    {
        private AppTestContext db;
        private string signingKey, audience, issuer;

        public CustomAuthController()
        {
            db = new AppTestContext();
            signingKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("WEBSITE_AUTH_SIGNING_KEY");
            var website = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("WEBSITE_HOSTNAME");
            audience = $"https://{website}/";
            issuer = $"https://{website}/";
        }

        [System.Web.Http.HttpPost]
        public IHttpActionResult Post([FromBody] User body)
        {
            if (body == null || body.Username == null || body.Password == null ||
                body.Username.Length == 0 || body.Password.Length == 0)
            {
                return BadRequest();
            }

            if (!IsValidUser(body))
            {
                return Unauthorized();
            }

            var claims = new Claim[]
            {
                new Claim(JwtRegisteredClaimNames.Sub, body.Username)
            };

            JwtSecurityToken token = AppServiceLoginHandler.CreateToken(
                claims, signingKey, audience, issuer, TimeSpan.FromDays(30));
            return Ok(new LoginResult()
            {
                AuthenticationToken = token.RawData,
                User = new LoginResultUser { UserId = body.Username }
            });
        }

        protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing)
            {
                db.Dispose();
            }
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }

        private bool IsValidUser(User user)
        {
            return db.Users.Count(u => u.Username.Equals(user.Username) && u.Password.Equals(user.Password)) > 0;
        }


    }


    public class LoginResult
    {
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "authenticationToken")]
        public string AuthenticationToken { get; set; }

        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "user")]
        public LoginResultUser User { get; set; }
    }

    public class LoginResultUser
    {
        [JsonProperty(PropertyName = "userId")]
        public string UserId { get; set; }
    }


}

If i add [System.Web.Http.HttpGet] on top of the function , then i get a different error. :

415 Unsupported media type

{
  "Message": "The request contains an entity body but no Content-Type header. The inferred media type 'application/octet-stream' is not supported for this resource."
}

These are the headers :

Allow →POST
Content-Length →72
Content-Type →application/json; charset=utf-8
Date →Sat, 28 Jan 2017 22:08:48 GMT
Server →Microsoft-IIS/8.0
X-Powered-By →ASP.NET

There are two errors you are getting both related to GET. When you send POST request with Content-Type = "application/json" what error you are getting? — Chetan

juunas juunas · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-28T22:00:48

You probably do want to make a POST request from PostMan instead of a GET. Don't add [HttpGet] on the action, just set the method to POST in PostMan.

And make sure you set the header Content-Type: application/json in PostMan.

C# Azure / Postman - 405 Method not Allowed error on POST

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