Is it possible to send an image file in the pre-request script of a request

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Hello everyone!

To give context to my problem, I have a set of endpoints that are for posting, deleting and getting images. The post requests use the binary option in the Body section of the request.

I was wondering if it was possible to set the body to use the binary body option in the pm.sendRequest() function to send image data?

pm.sendRequest({
url: ‘Some URL’,
method: ‘POST’,
header: {
{{parameters}}
},
body: {
mode: ‘binary’, (Is this possible?)
data: {{binary data here}} (Is this possible?)
}, function(err, res) {
{{do stuff here}}
}
});

if this is possible, please let me know.

2

Try something like this:

pm.sendRequest({
    url: 'httpbin.org/anything',
    method: 'POST',
    body: 'data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANS[...]==', 
function(err, res) {
    console.log(res);
}
});
3

@vdespa

Thank you, that clears that part up. I have a follow up question, I was wondering if it was possible to retrieve file data from your local machine and convert it to base64, or capture the binary data from a GET request to an image URL and convert it to base64 in order to POST it on a request?

4

I guess not, as you cannot read files when using scripts. Of course, this could be possible in Newman with some custom scripting.

5

You can’t access your local file system directly for security reasons. However, as a workaround, you could set up a local server to listen for requests sent from Postman, and then access your local file system in that way.

Here’s an example of how to write to your file system - reading from your file system would be a similar process: