HTTP request body not working

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Hello,

I am trying to send an HTTP request of a file to a custom API. (Which works) but the contents of the file, in this case a PDF, becomes everything I put in the body. (including the braces)

"{
“body”: { %PDF-1.3 %..."

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Maybe @Anonymous? 🙂

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Hi @FoDelement

Can you try passing the file content directly without any braces or keys and see if it is working that way?

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Hello!

When I try that, the file becomes corrupted. 😞

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@FoDelement

Have you tried achieving this with Postman (to send the file)?

Can you try:

{

"body": filecontent

}

and get rid of the extra pair of {}

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@yashag2255

I have gotten it to work with Postman as a Binary file, as well as form-data. I also have no issue using C# to get the file attached.

When I tried what you said, this happens.

The brackets and "body" make their way into the file.

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Hi @FoDelement

Would it be possible for you to share a screenshot from the Postman configuration? Regarding the headers and the body you are passing there?

I believe you can then pass the binary directly by accessing the "$content" key from the outputs of the file content of the get file content action.

If you could share the postman screenshot it would be easier to provide a better resolution for this.

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@yashag2255 I have spent two weeks trying to make this work. I am more than happy to share anything to make this work 🙂

I just sent a new request as form-data. The pdf uploaded just fine. The only header I need is the Content-Disposition and it needs to have the value of "attachment; filename=XXXXX" otherwise the API rejects it saying it does not have a file name.

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Hi @FoDelement

Try this:

From : https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/HTTP-Post-multipart-form-data/td-p/145181

You already have the authentication from the HTTP Azure AD so just put everything in the body as in the screenshot and it should work.

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@yashag2255

Hello again! I tried what you said, (see below)

but the content of the PDF that is created contains the whole body of the request.

Which results in the PDF appearing to be corrupted.

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Since you are already passing the header in the body, can you remove it from the headers option on the action and try once?

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@yashag2255

When I remove the headers, and only use them in the body I run into the issue where it requires that the Content-Disposition header has the required value of "attachment; filename=XXXXX" but it does not work. It's possible I am putting it in the wrong spot maybe?

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