Body is not sent in fireFox RESTClient

Question

When I'm calling elastic search service in firefox RESTClient it seems that body is not sent and it returns all documents in elastic search:

But when I copy curl command created by RESTClient itself and execute it in bash shell the response is just OK and it returns requested document.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Warning: 299 Elasticsearch-7.8.0-757314695644ea9a1dc2fecd26d1a43856725e65 "[types removal] Specifying types in search requests is deprecated."
content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
content-length: 446

{"took":11,"timed_out":false,"_shards":{"total":1,"successful":1,"skipped":0,"failed":0},"hits":{"total":{"value":2,"relation":"eq"},"max_score":0.6931471,"hits":[{"_index":"myindex","_type":"employee","_id":"yNPLjnMBdY381Mciyqch","_score":0.6931471,"_source":{
     "name": "ehsan",
     "value": 5
}},{"_index":"myindex","_type":"employee","_id":"ydPLjnMBdY381Mci96ee","_score":0.6931471,"_source":{
     "name": "ehsan",
     "value": 10
}}]}}

What's the problem here?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 27 '20 at 06:57

Try changing GET to POST in RESTClient. Some HTTP clients (like curl) do send a payload using GET, but others (like RESTClient) probably don't.

As a rule of thumb, always use POST (or PUT) when sending a payload, to make sure the client is actually sending it, with GET you don't get the same guarantee.

Also see this answer

Body is not sent in fireFox RESTClient

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