Problem with the sending invoice API

[Peter Braswell]

All,

I'm having issues with sending an invoice through the LA API.  The invoice that I'm sending is valid.  I'm using curl with the following command:

curl --user peter.braswell:[my_password] -X GET "https://peterbraswell.lessaccounting.com/invoices/1098851/sending.xml?method_of_sending=email_attachment&email_self=true&send_to_contact=true&api_key=[my_api_key]"

The invoice definitely exists.  My API key and credentials are all correct (as per the success of other calls) but the call returns an HTML page that says (among other things):

<p>The page you're looking for doesn't exist. Maybe you entered it wrong? We're going to look into this issue. Don't fret, we love you.</p>

What am I doing wrong??

TIA,

Peter

[Steven Bristol]

I think you have two problems:

1. You should be doing a post. So "-X POST" instead of get.
2. You must use basic auth so add either "--anyauth" or "--basic"

steve

[Peter Braswell]

Steven,

Thanks for the correction.  This makes sense (POST) but I was following the API doco, so it looks like there's a problem there.  From the API doco:

HTTP Verb/URL:

GET https://<business_name>.lessaccounting.com/invoices/1/sending.xml

POST-ing worked just fine.  I feel dumb not just trying that before I posted the question.

Many thanks,

Peter

[Steven Bristol]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Peter Braswell <peter.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

Steven,

Thanks for the correction.  This makes sense (POST) but I was following the API doco, so it looks like there's a problem there.  From the API doco:

HTTP Verb/URL:

GET https://<business_name>.lessaccounting.com/invoices/1/sending.xml

POST-ing worked just fine.  I feel dumb not just trying that before I posted the question.

Many thanks,

Peter

I'll get the docs fixed.​​