Getting http 400 error on statuspage.io incident post

Question

I'm using node.js to post incidents to our statuspage.io and getting a 400 error.  Based on the API docs, which show Curl examples, I'm formatting the post data as:

var postData = querystring.stringify({

'incident[name]': "Network routing issue",

'incident[status]': "identified",

'incident[body]': "body text...",

'incident[component_ids][]': "bk60bdqdqv7g",

'incident[components][bk60bdqdqv7g]': "degraded_performance"

});

The raw postData result string looks like:

postData="incident%5Bname%5D=Network%20routing%20issue&incident%5Bstatus%5D=identified&incident%5Bbody%5D=This%20is%20a%20test%20message%20body.%20%20Had%20this%20been%20a%20real%20incident%2C%20this%20would%20have%20hopefully%20contained%20some%20useful%20information.&incident%5Bcomponent_ids%5D%5B%5D=bk60bdqdqv7g&incident%5Bcomponents%5D%5Bbk60bdqdqv7g%5D=degraded_performance"

I'm sure that I'm not correctly translating the Curl example to javascript object.

Any pointers, examples, advice would be greatly appreciated.

dh1760 · Accepted Answer

I've resolved this issue -- I was not sending the correct Content-Type and Content-Length headers.  With Content-Type set to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" and Content-Length set to the post data length, I got back the expected 201 (success) status.