Using "Name" in JSON Body results in a Parse Error

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Okay, so I’m new to Postman,

I’ve been trying to send a Post Request with the body…

{
    "SupplierId": "XXX",
    "Status": "00",
    "_Name": "SUP"
}

Works as expected… however, if I remove the ‘underscore’…

{
    "SupplierId": "XXX",
    "Status": "00",
    "Name": "SUP"
}

I get no response from the server, if I then switch to the Postman Console view I see the following.

Error: Parse Error
Warning: This request did not get sent completely and might not have all the required system headers

Can I really not use ‘Name’ in my JSON body?

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Hey @MrSynergy,

Welcome to the community! :star:

There shouldn’t be a reason why that can’t be sent in the body, unless there is something on the server side that requires the data in a certain format.

Do you have access to the server side code?

What headers are you sending with this request?

3

Okay, you’re right in that it was server validation causing the issues.

What has thrown me is on Postman I see the message
'Could not get any response There was an error connecting to http://XXXX"

Whereas when I tried this with Insomina I saw the message ‘304 not modified’ (so it DID get a response), which in this case was legit.