# Postman Mock Servers (Request Forwarding)

**URL:** <https://community.postman.com/t/postman-mock-servers-request-forwarding/42928>\
**Category:** Help Hub\
**Tags:** request, mockservers\
**Created:** [January 16, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-mock-servers-request-forwarding/42928 "2023-01-16T15:45:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![docking-module-mete7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@docking-module-mete7](https://community.postman.com/u/docking-module-mete7)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-mock-servers-request-forwarding/42928/1 "2023-01-16T15:45:56Z")

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I’ve just started using Mock servers with Postman. I was wondering if they also support request forwarding or do we just have “standard” request + response set up only?

I couldn’t find any information regarding request forwarding in the documentation for mock servers or by searching about it online.

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**Author:** ![cmnazario](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/cmnazario/32/10207_2.png) [@cmnazario](https://community.postman.com/u/cmnazario)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:53am UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-mock-servers-request-forwarding/42928/2 "2023-01-18T00:53:23Z")

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Hi @docking-module-mete7 👋  
If it’s about handling responses based on requests, you can use x-mock-response-name, I’ll leave a part of the documentation that talks a little more about it:

> **[Mocking with the Postman API | Postman Learning Center](https://learning.postman.com/docs/designing-and-developing-your-api/mocking-data/mock-with-api/)**
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> Mocking with the Postman API: documentation for Postman, the collaboration platform for API development. Create better APIs—faster.

I hope it helped you 🙂

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**Author:** ![docking-module-mete7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@docking-module-mete7](https://community.postman.com/u/docking-module-mete7)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-mock-servers-request-forwarding/42928/3 "2023-01-18T18:51:20Z")

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@cmnazario Hi Cris, thank you for responding! Unfortunately, that’s not quite what I am looking for. I wanted to know if it is possible to configure the Mock server so that we have the option to **forward** the request to _another_ server (potentially a mocked one) and then return the response back. So, if there was a way to configure one of the requests to be forwarded rather than return the saved example body, that would be awesome.

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**Author:** ![praveendvd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/getpostman/user_avatar/community.postman.com/praveendvd/32/6796_2.png) [@praveendvd](https://community.postman.com/u/praveendvd)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://community.postman.com/t/postman-mock-servers-request-forwarding/42928/4 "2023-01-18T19:00:38Z")

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@docking-module-mete7 hi you could add a pre-request to check if the request is ‘something’ and change pm.request.url to be someother mock url instead of the one you using