I'm having an issue(dont know if this is actually an issue and I've looked on the postman website but cant find anything) when I send a get from a web service, the xml that is brought back returns <elementA></elementA>. When I do the same request on SOAPUI it returns <elementA xsi:nil='true'/>.
Is there a setting in postman to allow it recognise xsi:nil?
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i am playing around with Postman to get some insight on how things work behind the curtain and ran into, what I believe, is an issue but wanted to ask before I create a new issue on GitHub.
I am intercepting the request from my browser to the same site using the Postman Interceptor to use the request values in the native app. I have cookies enabled and the site (the whole domain) whitelisted.
When I use the history to resend the same request that was captured I get an auth error that is caused by the fact that the cookies are not included in the request (found that out by checking the cURL code snippet). I believe the reason for that is, that the cookies are set under another sub domain than that the request is send to.
I will try to include some pictures to clarify. My question here is:
Am I missing something/did I set something up in the wrong way
or is this an issue and I should create an issue in the official Postman Github page
cURL request
Cookies in Postman Native App
you should see if cookie is being send not using code snippet but the console :
its indeed sending cookies ,
I am trying to set a request after a certain request in postman, but It is not working as I want it to be. I have read through Postman documentation but got no luck. Plus, how do I get postman's request ID?
I am using the given JavaScript in the Test tab, and in postman documentation it says it should work. But no luck.
postman.setNextRequest('Login');
postman.setNextRequest('Login') will work only inside the Runner. Also, the requests need to be in the same Collection.
Even if the request is in another folder (while still in the same collection), you can reference it in setNextRequest(), without having to specify any folder.
And to answer your second question, "how to get the Postman Request Id?"
Use this pm.info.requestId which will return string value, you may set that in environment variable as well, like pm.environment.set("rID", pm.info.requestId)
I am getting familiar with both Postman and SoapUI. I already have a doubt. When I make a GET call with from the postman-echo service, I get slightly different responses shown to me in Postman and in SoapUI.
In particular, in Postman I get
"postman-token": "1ef2b330-3a46-4681-a304-d72f020cb194"
This field-value pair is not shown by SoapUI.
Can anyone explain me the apparent difference?
The parameter postman-token being added while you send a request from Postman. So, it's a custom parameter, you cannot expect it to be present with other tools.
If you check Postman doc of General settings They have explained what is that param is for:
This is primarily used to bypass a bug in Chrome. If an XmlHttpRequest
is pending and another request is sent with the same parameters then
Chrome returns the same response for both of them. Sending a random
token avoids this issue. This can also help you distinguish between
request on the server side.
You can disable it from Postman settings. Goto Settings > General > Send Postman Token header.
I have a VB.NET app that sends a POST request to a script on my server that is running Cloudflare. I always get an error when sending the request from the app, however using a Firefox extension to simulate the request works fine. With the use of Fiddler I think I have found the cause of the problem:
When sending the request with the Firefox addon an extra header is attached to the request:
Cookie: __cfduidxxxxxxxxxxxx
This cookie is from Cloudflare, but where does it come from, ie. how can I get this cookie value and send it with my requests from the VB app? I tried copying and pasting the cookie into the app and it worked fine, so this leads me to conclude that I need this cookie, however this value is unique for each user so I cannot simply hardcode it into the app.
Quick side-note: Not sure if this helps, but if I send a GET request from the VB app it works fine without the __cfduid cookie.
Look for a Set-Cookie header coming back from the server on it's response. It will expect to get that value back on subsequent requests in a Cookie: header. This value is usually an opaque string that is classified by a path, although not always.
I am sending get httpwebrequests to the facebook graph api and all was working fine till I deployed to production server and now module that expects html/xml response is not working and when tested url in internet explorer, the save file dialog pops up and the file needs to be saved.
Other modules also send requests to the facebook graph but just differ in the form of requests so not sure what is going on here.
Any ideas appreciated
Edit:
Let me try and rephrase this. On my production server the httpwebrequest was not returning the correct result. So to Test it I copied the url http://graph.facebook.com/pepsi which is an example, should return the profile info viewable in the browser. The server has internet explorer v8 and I am not sure why it tries to download the file instead of displaying it in the browser. this is what is happening in my code and when I make a request to a different part of the api, then it works in my app but not in the browser
Your question is not very clear. From what I gather, you want the display the JSON response in a browser. Instead, you are being asked to download a file by the browser.
Well, this is normal behaviour. The response you get from Facebook would most likely have a MIME type of application/json. Most newer web browsers display the text in the browser itself. Some browsers, however don't know how to handle this content type and just ask you to download the file.
You mentioned that your module expects an html/xml response. Try changing this to application/json.
You also said that it works in your app but not in your browser. I don't know what you're making, but generally you wouldn't show raw json to the user in a browser, right?