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For those who were excitedly following my datacash dilemna (probably only dom) you may be pleased to know that I have solved it. :)
Ending up having to recreate the entire environment on my local machine so I could then packet sniff the HTTP connection I found the only difference between the programatic request (that failed) and the web page request (that succeeded) was that the web page one had "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" in it. On finding the bit of the API that added this in to my program it would now appear to work.
I guess my main problem was that the test program I was running against obviously is a bit more clever than the datacash one (open source in better than closed code shocker) and so if the content type is not present it assumes or does clever recognition things.
Anyway, the upshot of it is that after a nice bit of packet sniffing I found the root cause and just have to change the source code properly (I just hacked together test code just now so I need to check that the changes I made are decent).
I have to say I think that it also helped to take a bit of time away from the problem since I seemed to be going round in circles before. Thanks also to Dom for helping me get my thoughts straight. Most helpful. :)
Ending up having to recreate the entire environment on my local machine so I could then packet sniff the HTTP connection I found the only difference between the programatic request (that failed) and the web page request (that succeeded) was that the web page one had "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" in it. On finding the bit of the API that added this in to my program it would now appear to work.
I guess my main problem was that the test program I was running against obviously is a bit more clever than the datacash one (open source in better than closed code shocker
Anyway, the upshot of it is that after a nice bit of packet sniffing I found the root cause and just have to change the source code properly (I just hacked together test code just now so I need to check that the changes I made are decent).
I have to say I think that it also helped to take a bit of time away from the problem since I seemed to be going round in circles before. Thanks also to Dom for helping me get my thoughts straight. Most helpful. :)