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facing error-The requested URL could not be retrieved

rakeshagrl wrote on 2012-02-02:
Hi,
While I am using below url its giving me error
https://staging.XXX.net/suite/dlg/prt.p009/rpt.php?user=PMGR%2347648&code_string=62602b758dfb4258c6eb20e73ab39ba9&REP_ID=1552248&STAMP=20100802170502&MARKAS=2&14:15:15

Error details

{417 - <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<TITLE>ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved</TITLE>
<STYLE type="text/css"><!--BODY{background-color:#D7D8E8;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-width:0px;marhin-height:0px;font-family:verdana,sans-serif}PRE{font-family:sans-serif}--></STYLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"><TR BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><TD>
</TD></TR></TABLE><!-- Disable footer: squid/2.7.STABLE9 --><BLOCKQUOTE>
<H2>The requested URL could not be retrieved</H2>
<HR noshade size="1px">
<P>
While trying to process the request:
<PRE>
POST /api/pdf/convert/uri/ HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Host: pdfcrowd.com
Content-Length: 123
Expect: 100-continue
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

</PRE>
<P>
The following error was encountered:
<UL>
<LI>
<STRONG>
Invalid Request
</STRONG>
</UL>

<P>
Some aspect of the HTTP Request is invalid. Possible problems:
<UL>
<LI>Missing or unknown request method
<LI>Missing URL
<LI>Missing HTTP Identifier (HTTP/1.0)
<LI>Request is too large
<LI>Content-Length missing for POST or PUT requests
<LI>Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed
</UL>
support wrote on 2012-02-02:
Hello,

It seems you are behind a proxy that does not let the API call pass through or the proxy has restricted Internet access. Please contact your system administrator regarding this error.
rakeshagrl wrote on 2012-02-02:
but I couldn't identify then how other vendor's dll is working on this setup, but since their quality is not so good , going with this solution, if any else solution is there please let me know.