I need to send a request, containing '<' and '>' as content, to a webhook. Using webhook.site, I can see, that there are many '%3C' and '%3E's in the url while in debug panel it shows the original term. Here's an example: https://webhook.site/330debe9-0f95-4805-a766-09cace553fcb?login=login_dl&pas…

You could try something like this in a function node (untested as not near my PC)... msg.url = "https://webhook.site/330debe9-0f95-4805-a766-09cace553fcb"; msg.payload = { login: "login_dl", password: "password", type: "import", really: 1, content: `<active_item/><new_item/><st…

Thanks Dave, but sorry, my fault: it's a GET request, so no payload inside...

Can you post a simple flow showing the problem? Preferably just an Inject node and the http node, so we can see exactly what you are doing.

You can set the http request node to append the payload query strings, in a get request payload - Append to query-string parameters Or use a template node to construct the URL using {{{ }}} to ignore html parsing of input variable. Read the sidebar help section.

[ { "id": "b9f5087df343d410", "type": "group", "z": "be78e41b9d95865c", "name": "DLplus A-T", "style": { "label": true }, "nodes": [ "b19c8858b209f8ee", "79de4164e7fd70c7", "b6bfbdb005e8affd",…

Hm... Tried {{{url}}} in the URL field, but it outputs the same... And I can't find how to Append to query-string parameters. Do you have a few further hints for me? (the "Disable strict HTTP parsing" option doesn't change anything)

Set the http node to get, not by method, then it is available as a dropdown. can you show us msg.req after the http request node?

Thanks! Since I always try to get everything controlled by function nodes... The node seems not do accept the payload...

That's what I did... :thinking: Did you switch to the Toggle Flows/Source option in the lower right corner? [image] (the { } symbol)

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When sharing code, this is the best (and only) way to do it so that people can help you. An image just shows the Node Blocks and not what they contain.

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