Works in Boomerang - fails in Postman

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A relatively simple straight forward POST request towards the Samsung SmartThings REST-API. The purpose is remote start of a washing machine. It works well in Boomerang, but fails in Postman.
So why go to Postman? Because Boomerang doesn’t offer a CURL export, so I have no way of finding out what Boomerang actually sends and hence why it works and everything else fails.

This is the result from Boomerang:

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And here are the headers are:
Content-Type: text/plain
Authorization: [API Token]

Here’s the same from Postman:

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and the headers (all of them):

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Any help is much appreciated.
My ultimate goal is to make a CURL command that works. I have tried every possible syntax combinations I could possibly think of, but to no avail. The only thing that works every time, is Boomerang. But it won’t reveal what’s going on under the hood.

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Where are you setting the API key in Postman?

Check the console log to ensure its actually being sent in the post request.

3

Hi, I found the problem. I had to select Bearer Authorization.
I wasn’t aware of this option setting in Postman.

It works now.

Rgds