Hi, I am using postman to perform a POST api where I need to encrypt the request data before sending the post. The way I am trying to solve the problem is to set in the body in plain json and in the pre-request script apply the encryption. Now that the encrypted data is ready to be sent, how can I…

@mtanzi You can encrypt the plain JSON in the pre-request script and then save it to an environment variable that can then be referenced in the request. Example: Pre-request var data = { “someJSON”: “green”, “moreJSON”: “supergreen”, }; var encrypt_data = (Your Encryption Method); postman.s…

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tkloeber (tkloeber) August 23, 2018, 8:56am 9

but shouldn’t that result in a syntax error with a 400 status code when you send the request?

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Update request.body in pre-request script

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