Vscode-restclient: req.body is empty using REST Client, but with Postman, it works fine

[locohost]

• VSCode Version: 1.26.1
• OS Version: Windows 10
• REST Client Version: 0.19.1

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a POST Json content
2. Post it

When I post with REST Client, in the express route, req.body is always empty. When I post the exact same message using Postman, the express route works fine as req.body is populated as expected.

Here is the text in Rest client...
NOTE: The appSecret is 412 characters long so I clipped...

POST http://localhost:3000/message HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/json
{ 
    "processHandle": "joe", 
    "appSecret": "dbc339a42526a898b76eee100a1a913c2fd0dac83b663bbb72..........", 
    "tags": "test-tag,blah-tag", 
    "data": "{ \"AnObject\": { \"Attrib\": \"SubObjData...\" }, \"FirstNumber\": 27, \"ThisIsData\": \"SomeData\", \"test\": \"Hello!\", \"LastNumber\": 42 }"
}

[Huachao]

The blank line should exist between request body and headers, not the request line and headers

[locohost]

That was it. Thank you for super fast reply :-)

[DefaultJARR]

Same thing is happening to me with this :C

`POST http://localhost:7000/accountsmod/accounts HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: : application/json

{
"nickname": "El Juanzo",
"password": "adwfawd",
"status": true,
"role": "5f018c5afda9715ff8403736",
"user": "5f0187ae32a664164809ac4a"
}`

what could be the mistake?

[Huachao]

@DefaultJARR could you please show me the complete http file?

[stevenson]

I am experiencing the same issue where the body is not recognized.
Content-Type: "application/json"

but when I removed the quotes for application json it worked
Content-Type: application/json

[jkcdarunday]

@DefaultJARR
Hi, I noticed that there are two colons after your Content-Type which causes the client to send an invalid type and the server to not know how to process the body.

[andrechalom]

Having the same issue on Windows 10 when running requests against localhost, maybe it's related?

example.rest as follows:

POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/users HTTP/1.1
content-type: "application/json"

{
    "name": "Joao",
    "lname": "da Silva",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "(11) 555-1234"
}

EDIT: I should mention that I'm working with VSCode 1.47.3, REST Client Version: 0.24.1 PHP 7.4.3

[jkcdarunday]

@andrechalom Check out @stevenson's comment above. The value of content-type should not be wrapped in double quotes.

[andrechalom]

My bad, the actual problem was how I was trying to read the $_POST superglobal, when I should be looking at file_get_contents("php://input")