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Hey @jkurzawa,
Whenever I've had this before where "something works in Postman, but doesn't in ReadyAPI" - I check the headers on the request" as more often than not - this was the problem. Typically it's either the headers (I'm mostly thinking content-type) or payload - especially with multipart type. It's easy to get it wrong.
are you definitely using multipart/form-data rather than multipart/mixed rather than application/x-www-form-urlencoded?
Anyway - before now - I've submitted the successful Postman request and reviewed the RAW request. Then I've submitted the request using ReadyAPI and compared the RAW requests - the differences are the problem.
Then it's just a case of doing whatever's needed to fix the differences so the RAW request of your ReadyAPI! looks identical to the RAW request of your equivalent Postman request.
Did you follow these instructions --> https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/requests/attachment/rest.html to submit your request in ReadyAPI!?
Please note - it's been a couple of years - but there was a defect in the ReadyAPI! code the last time I did this a couple of years ago. I can't remember what it is - but follow the instructions and compare with what ReadyAPI! does - I think it auto-completes the filename or parameter value incorrectly - you need to manually alter it to correct it afterwards.
If you post back with progress / screenshots we should be able to resolve your issue,
Cheers,
rich
Hi richie ,
First of all thank you for the detailed reply!
I followed the instructions you sent the link to and then compared raw requests from both ReadyAPI and Postman. There were some differences in the requests, so I made some modifications, but unfortunately still didn't manage to make it work.
I am attaching raw requests. the only real difference I see is the 'boundary' parameter, so I will try to somehow modify that.
Postman request (that one works):
POST [Redacted] HTTP/1.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Connection: Keep-Alive
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,br
Authorization: Bearer [Redacted]
User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.37.3
Accept: */*
Postman-Token: [Redacted]
Host: [Redacted]
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=--------------------------362113083232692374548533
Content-Length: 160138
----------------------------362113083232692374548533
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="attachment"; filename="test.png"
<test.png>
----------------------------362113083232692374548533--
ReadyAPI request:
POST [Redacted] HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,br
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary="----=_Part_498_280555933.1715003877236"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Authorization: Bearer [Redacted]
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 160089
Host: [Redacted]
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.14 (Java/17.0.10)
------=_Part_498_280555933.1715003877236
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="attachment"; filename="test.png"
‰PNG
- richie4 months agoCommunity Hero
Hi jkurzawa
I've had exactly the same issues you've had before - can't quite remember how I fixed it - I know it's fiddly - but the answer to fix is on this page --> https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/requests/attachment/rest.html?_ga=2.141922359.409016722.1715216495-1265009626.1713380060
If you follow the instructions exactly it will resolve the issue - are you making sure you are selecting the 'Post QueryString' checkbox?
I think that was what I missed when I did it before and once I'd selected that - it wrapped the content in the boundaries properly and was identical to what my Postman request's RAW looked like
Cheers,
Rich
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