Questions tagged [postman]
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Where does Postman install to?
I recently installed Postman on my Windows 7 laptop. Postman launched automatically once the initial installation finished, but I haven't been able to figure out how to re-launch the application since then.
The installer didn't give me the option to…
Stevoisiak
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How to update Postman Linux
I have installed Postman on my Ubuntu through snap, but every time I open it I get a warning message that ask me to update Postman:
In the setting there isn't any "Update" option (unlike the Windows version of Postman), so how am I suppose to…
Dav
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GUI Postman on Windows Server 2012 R2?
I have problems with my installed Postman on a Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64 Version 6.3, build 9600).
First of all, I have downloaded and successfully installed (and also later removed) different versions of Postman: 6.1.4 (tried x86 and x64) and…
Hauns TM
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Postman: Invalid CORS Request
I use Postman to make manual requests to a REST API my team develops.
I recently added an Origin header to an OPTIONS request in order to test whether CORS response headers are sent properly.
Ever since, for every request I make, I get an error…
elaforma
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How can I determine which browser tab a request is coming from?
I set up a proxy (using Postman) that Chrome is now routing all requests through.
I see a bunch of requests being made to a site I don't recognize, and it repeats every few seconds. I have about 50 Chrome tabs open, so I'm wondering, is there a…
CodyBugstein
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Paste an HTTP request directly into postman to send
By an http request, I mean something like:
POST /service/controller.asmx/endpoint HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: ...
xmlFile=string&xmlFile=string
Is there a way to paste a request in this…
user973223
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Can I reuse a request in Postman for different tests?
I'm busy testing some web API, and am trying to use Postman to automate that.
As far as I can see, test scripts in Postman are always tied to a single request, so if I want to test different scenarios for the same request, I would have to make a…
Berend
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How to make postman works with urls containing a dot between slashes (current dir)
Problem
Getting a URL that contains /./ inside from a redirection.
I run a GET {{base}}/main-menu. The response is 302 with a redirect to ./menu
Postman is trying to GET {{base}}/./main (with the ./ inside) and fails with a 404.
But if try that in…
Emilio Platzer
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How to type commands in Postman?
I feel like I am going insane. I've been using the Postman application as a GUI to test out APIs. I have made a Collection scope variable, and I want to remove it. There is no indication that I can do this through the GUI. The following should…
Eric
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Postman gRPC Request not available
I'm trying to create a gRPC Request in Postman but it's greyed out with the message "You don't have permission to take this action". I'm running the latest version (v10.12). Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
To replicate the issue I create a new…
Kevin Brydon
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How can I configure Postman so that it uses HTTP instead of HTTPS when querying an API?
I use Postman on Microsoft Windows 10 to test some API. By default, it uses HTTPS when querying an API. How can I configure Postman so that it uses HTTP instead of HTTPS when querying an API?
Franck Dernoncourt
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POST request not redirecting to https
This is my example.conf's nginx config file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name api.example.net;
return 301 https://api.example.net$request_uri;
access_log off;
error_log /dev/stderr;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
root…
Saeed
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Postman requests in same session
I'm experimenting with the TeamCity API with Postman. When doing POST and PUT requests, you're required to supply Authorize header with a token that's permanent, and also a X-TC-CSRF-Token header, that has to be requested in a previous call.
This…
Max
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Manual tests work, but Collection Runner Fails
I have a Postman collection with Tests that works as intended when run manually with a specific environment file. However, when I attempt to run the same collection in the Collection Runner with the same environment file, I get an error that stops…
SKaplan
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403 error on soap incoming message but not from postman
I have a very strange error, and frankly I don't have any clue what's causing it. I'm attempting to set up outbound messages for a salesforce account (which send SOAP messages) and I'm running a Ubuntu server through Digital ocean. I've installed…
