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I am trying to use the Database.com REST API to update a record in my database.

Using the REST explorer in my workbench it always gives me an HTTP error (400 bad request) + some HTML that says: We are down for maintenance. Sorry for the inconvenience. We'll be back shortly.

I also get the same error using other REST clients.

The odd thing is that it is only occurring with the update method. GET and Query work perfectly...

What I have in the rest explorer: (I left out my ID numbers)
Methodurl: /services/data/v26.0/sobjects/Album__c/{albumid}

Request headers:
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Accept: application/json

Request body:
{"Name":"Schoppen aas"}

Thanks for any suggestions!

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  • This happens rarely and i have experienced the same and you may need to wait for some time and you will be able to acess the workbench
    – Mohith Shrivastava
    Commented Nov 26, 2012 at 8:59
  • I am able to access the workbench!! I can even execute most of the REST methods. But I can not execute that PATCH method, in the response I get an HTML page that says it's down for maintenace...
    – Nielsm
    Commented Nov 26, 2012 at 9:07
  • Thanks for making me understand the actual problems .Certainly this will be bug in workbench #safeharbour .Need to look more on cause.
    – Mohith Shrivastava
    Commented Nov 26, 2012 at 9:30
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    Yes it is possible that it is a bug, but I also get the same response from my own application or an external REST client so it is also possible that I'm doing something wrong. But I cannot find what it is...
    – Nielsm
    Commented Nov 26, 2012 at 10:08
  • Which HTTP method are you using for the update? Are you including an OAuth token in the request? Do you see the same behavior with a standard object such as Account?
    – metadaddy
    Commented Nov 26, 2012 at 15:32

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There was a bug with the database.com inbound proxy where it was incorrectly rejecting PATCH requests. Previously, you had to use the _HttpMethod parameter with a POST request to have your request go through, e.g.

POST /services/data/v26.0/sobjects/Album__c/{albumid}?_HttpMethod=PATCH

Fortunately, this issue is now fixed as of 2012-12-12. PATCH requests may now be used in Database.com organizations.

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I'll be honest - I have not tried PATCH with workbench. Have you tried using the POST w/ Patch Override? From the docs:

'If you use an HTTP library that doesn't allow overriding or setting an arbitrary HTTP method name, you can send a POST request and provide an override to the HTTP method via the query string parameter _HttpMethod. In the PATCH example, you can replace the PostMethod line with one that doesn't use override:

PostMethod m = new PostMethod(url + "?_HttpMethod=PATCH");'

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