Saved Request is automatically adding an "=" to the end of the request URL

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No luck digging through documentation and support for an answer to this, so I’m asking for help.

Send the following GET request:
http://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/.json?test

Looking at the Postman Console, you’ll see the request is
GET http://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/.json?test

Now, save that request in Postman

And send the saved request.

Looking at the Postman Console, you’ll see the request is
GET http://www.reddit.com/r/cocktails/.json?test=

The saved request is automatically adding the equals sign (=).

I get that it’s imposing the query parameter’s value, but this breaks a third-party API I’m working with.

Unfortunately I don’t have control of the third-party API and I’d like to store all the requests into a Postman Collection.

Thoughts?

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I think you are running into a similar issue that I’m facing (Bug: Request URI mutation when saving). I’ve resorted to saving the request and then copying over all the parameters into a new ‘unsaved’ request when I need to use it.

I’ve been playing around with the pre-request scripts a bit and I think you might be able to resolve this issue by passing in the tail value (test) as a string stored in a variable by the prerequest script.

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That sounds oddly familiar. I’ve been doing the same “copy & paste” method for now, but it’s a B when you have to copy a bunch of stuff (body, authentication, etc.)

I’ll continue to monitor your thread as well to see if this gets resolved.

Thanks for the heads up!

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@ambr_amontalbano

I tried this with our latest version 6.0.9 and couldn’t reproduce this. Could you give this another try with the latest version?

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Hi Kamalakannan,

I tried with the latest version and it doesn’t happen anymore.

Thank you,

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Just tried with v6.0.9 and it cannot reproduce. It is resolved. Thank you!

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This problem still exists in version 10.23: I have multiple query parameters of which I only use one at a time. When I uncheck one and check another, a “=” is automatically added, invalidating the request.