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jhc
jhc

Reputation: 1759

POST request to Django DRF call working in cURL but not with Postman

I'm following the instructions to support TokenAuthentication in my rest-api site, shown here. Using cURL, I have been able to obtain my user's token (username - example, password - example), through the following command:

curl -X POST -d "username=example&password=example" localhost:8000/api/login/

This returns a successful response, with example's authentication token.

Yet when I do (what I think is) the same thing through Postman, it simply does not work. See image below.

Postman response

From the error code (400 - Bad request), it seems like it's not even receiving the POST parameters at all. Can anyone help me here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2399

Answers (3)

Ro Ma
Ro Ma

Reputation: 59

Even this is very old question, but if this answer would be helpful... I had exactly same issue

solution: don't put username and password in address bar,but only

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and in body put json data of your username and password as below

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be careful, don't use single quotation marks'', but use double quotation marks "" instead, otherwise will fail, no clue why

Upvotes: 1

Rahul Gupta
Rahul Gupta

Reputation: 520

See your URL in postman. There is attached query String with the URL.So remove that query String from the URL and send parameters as a post request like this.

http://localhost:8000/api/login/

Upvotes: 1

MrName
MrName

Reputation: 2529

Depending on how your API is set up, you probably need to specify the content type in your request headers, Content-Type: application/json.

Upvotes: 0

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