Version: desktop app, Windows 10
Objective: authenticate and then download a text file.
Results: I receive a 302 and a 200 response, which I believe means the authentication worked. I get a session cookie. When I use the cookie to then retrieve a text file, the result is a page of HTML. However, in a browser the file downloads fine. The headers show the server is using gzip compression. Any suggestions?
Postman has very limited access to the local file system.
Postman is a client that can be used to access an API.
It is not a browser, and doesn’t have the same access to the file system.
Is it returning an HTML page or a base64 encoding of the file?
If you select the “preview” tab, it might be able to render the file if the server returns the correct headers. I know it works if the file is a PDF, but probably won’t work with compressed zipped files.