Flask - The method is not allowed for the requested URL

[nsahn (Nour)]

Hello, I’m a student and I’ve just started with the POSTMAN application. I’m trying to set up a python server using Flask so that I can create an API to share the results of home automation experiments (e.g. arduino).

Unfortunately I have a problem with my POST request, I don’t want to use JSON formats but “x-www-form-urlencoder”. When I send the request I get an error 405 “METHOD NOT ALLOWED”.

really don’t understand where this problem can come from as my GET request is working properly (I’m sure it’s a stupid mistake …) .

It would be really great if one of you could unblock me!

I am enclosing the different elements of my problem.

— Python - Flask script —

— Postman GET query —

— Postman Post query —

Thank you in advance!

[danny-dainton]

I’m not even going to begin to tell you anything about Python or Flask but that looks like you are sending both the GET and POST to the same route.

I think be default, it’s set to receive GET requests but you would need to tell it that its for other methods.

I would suppect that’s the reason for the 405 status code.

Add something like this I think but probably need more to handle the params and/or body:

@app.route("/", methods=['GET', 'POST'])

https://www.flaskapi.org/#requests

[iamsrid (Sri Datta)]

The given link is broken but It worked. Thanks.

[danny-dainton]

Seems like that project has moved in the last 3 years

I think this is the right set of docs now:

https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/