Html request does not forward request body

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Hi,

I set up OOB html request node using basic authentication and TLS/SSL to IXIA REST api. The request body is not sent. On the same server where node-red is installed I can use curl with the same data and it works fine. Additionally Postman also has success to the same api endpoint. I have these settings:

header:
Content-Type: "application/json" // the server will not accept (x-www-form-urlencoded etc)
Authorization: Basic ...

method: "POST" // but also fails to send body on PUT method
payload: {json payload}

I also had setup REST api to elastic from same server and this works in node-red (html request) request body is sent.

When testing with curl the only difference I can see between the elastic and ixia apis is that the ixia api wants to use cipher: ECDHA-RSA-AES128-GSM-SHA256

I am running node.js 12.21.1 and node-red 1.3.4
no errors are thrown in consoles.

I had this api in another server and had the same issue in that server however after a server restart it mysteriously started to work there. Going back to that server now the same fault of the request body is not sent is back and nothing I do resolves this issue.

Any ideas? Does the version of node.js not support this particular cipher??
Any help appreciated.

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You need to share the settings of the node.

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See here for the flow:

[{"id":"1057c3fd.2d96ec","type":"tab","label":"Flow 1","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"9779d254.d60b1","type":"function","z":"1057c3fd.2d96ec","name":"filters/search","func":"msg={};\nmsg.payload={name:\"ExtraHop EDA\"}\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","libs":[],"x":550,"y":240,"wires":[["6d565bd5.82bd34"]]},{"id":"6d565bd5.82bd34","type":"http request","z":"1057c3fd.2d96ec","name":"","method":"POST","ret":"obj","paytoqs":"ignore","url":"https://10.112.138.138:2002/api/filters/search","tls":"9b4d8ca0.af7b6","persist":false,"proxy":"","authType":"basic","x":600,"y":300,"wires":[["9044a948.da3b38"]]},{"id":"9044a948.da3b38","type":"debug","z":"1057c3fd.2d96ec","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":800,"y":300,"wires":[]},{"id":"b6bd6e15.14b2c","type":"inject","z":"1057c3fd.2d96ec","name":"go","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"true","payloadType":"bool","x":520,"y":180,"wires":[["9779d254.d60b1"]]},{"id":"9b4d8ca0.af7b6","type":"tls-config","name":"Ixia","cert":"","key":"","ca":"","certname":"","keyname":"","caname":"","servername":"","verifyservercert":false}]
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also the server I am running this on is SUSE12 SP4

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It is just the node's settings we need for now. Can't really load flows for every issue in the forum.

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which settings are you after? ~/.node-red/settings.js ? or just the html request node settings? or node.js settings? thx.

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Can you fix your shared flow? I tried to import it but something is not right due to the missing ``` at the end.

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As I said, the node's settings.

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@TotallyInformation Is this what you are after?:
image

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@kevinGodell Hi Kevin, I just used the copy button (top right) of my post with the flow json and imported back into nodeRED with out issue. not sure what else I can do.

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