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I am using postman to test an API I have, all is good when the request does not contain sub-domain, however when I add a sub-domain to URL I am getting this response.

Could not get any response

There was an error connecting to http://subdomain.localhost:port/api/

Why this might have happened:

The server couldn't send a response:Ensure that the backend is working properly

Self-signed SSL certificates are being blocked:Fix this by turning off 'SSL certificate verification' in Settings > General

Proxy configured incorrectly Ensure that proxy is configured correctly in Settings > Proxy

Request timeout:Change request timeout in Settings > General

If I copy the same URL from postman and paste it into the browser I get a proper response, is there some kind of configurations I should do to make postman work with sub-domains?

I've mainly run into timeout issues when there was something like not being connected to a VPN, a runaway process server-side. Could there be something missing in your request headers, or CORS config? Ed Meacham Dec 14, 2017 at 19:41 if this is the case, should not I get like "bad request", "unauthorized" or something similar? Yahya Hussein Dec 14, 2017 at 19:44 For a routing issue, you would most definitely get a 40x. If it's a whitelist/VPN issue you should be getting a 40x as well... I have no idea how the service is configured, but when using Postman, your request will be coming from a different origin--so, a potential whitelist issue. You should be able to do some basic debugging on the server-side to see if you're even getting to the controller for your endpoint... Ed Meacham Dec 14, 2017 at 19:57 I see, if it is a white list issue, will it work for localhost/api and will not for subdomain.localhost/api? no it is not getting to the controller Yahya Hussein Dec 14, 2017 at 20:04 I think many of the times there is something wrong with the application and not Postman. I debugged my Application and checked in the output window in Visual Studio, and found out there were reference loops between my entities. After i fixed this the problem was gone. Desell Mar 1, 2019 at 8:51

Configure Apache :

If the above changes resulted in a 404 response, then continue reading ;-)

Users that host their site locally (like with XAMP and/or WAMP ), may be able to visit their virtual sites using https:// prefixed address, but it's a lie, and to really enable SSL (for each virtual-site), configure Apache like:

  • Open httpd-vhosts.conf file (from Apache 's conf/extras directory), in your preferred text editor.

  • Change the virtual site's settings, into something like:

    <VirtualHost *:80 *:443>
        ServerName my-site.local
        ServerAlias *.my-site.local
        DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\my-project\public"
        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile "path/to/my-generated.cert"
        SSLCertificateKeyFile "path/to/my-generated.key"
        SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
        <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\my-project\public">
            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
            AllowOverride All
            Order allow, deny
            Allow from all
        </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>
    

    But of course, generate a dummy-SSL-certificate, and change all file paths, like from "path/to/my-generated.cert" into real file addresses.

  • Finally, test by visiting the local site in the browser, but using http:// (without S) prefixed address; Apache should now give error like:
  • Bad Request
    Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
    Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
    Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.
                    It worked like a charm, but my confusion is, why did it worked for QA, but not for DEV. Anyway, both of them works fine now. Thanks again.
    – raja777m
                    May 7, 2019 at 15:12
                    I love how this answer gets so many upvotes when it literally tells you the same things the error message said to do.
    – georgiaboy82
                    Jun 20, 2019 at 17:09
                    Somewhat related: I had my requests grouped in a collection, using a common url variable across all the requests.  I accidentally erased the variable name (even though the url values were still there) and got the error mentioned in the OP.
    – Jesuisme
                    Mar 17, 2019 at 5:10
                    @Kerooker! Your comment is what saved me!  It was a copy pasted header key that had a leading space for me.
    – saml
                    Aug 20, 2019 at 18:59
    

    If you get a "Could not get any response" message from Postman native apps while sending your request, open Postman Console (View > Show Postman Console), resend the request and check for any error logs in the console.

    Thanks to numaanashraf

    Very helpful. I think I needed to disable the ssl certs, but I had added a bad header, and the console spelled that out for me. – MattC Sep 25, 2019 at 13:33 This pointed me in the right direction; in my case the console log gave a much clearer error than Postman did: "Error: Invalid character in header content ["Authorization"] Warning: This request did not get sent completely and might not have all the required system headers". – Peter W Jan 31, 2020 at 3:50 This should be the accepted answer since it helps you understand the underlying cause and not just guess it (e.g. "invalid character in header"). – Alexei - check Codidact Mar 4, 2020 at 16:29 You may laugh, but a v7.17.0 fresh install had this at 60... If you hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't look there for hours... Thanks! – Koshinae Feb 6, 2020 at 14:50

    If all above methods doesn't work check your environment variables, And make sure that the following environments are not set. If those are set and not needed by any other application remove them.

    HTTP_PROXY
    HTTPS_PROXY
    

    Reference link

    Can you explain why a Proxy would be necessary to access a server on the local network that is having this problem? – robross0606 Feb 5, 2019 at 20:16
  • In postman go to setting --> proxy
  • And off Global Proxy Configuration
  • on the Use System Proxy

  • And go to windows host configure file 'C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts'

  • Open that file in administrator mode
  • And add the sub domain to hosts file

    For me, it was that route that I was calling in my node server wasn't returning anything. Adding

        return res.status(200).json({
            message: 'success!',
            response: 'success!'
        });//
    

    to the route I was calling resolved the issue.

    You mentioned you are using a CER certificate.

    According to the Postman page on certificates.

    Choose your client certificate file in the CRT file field. Currently, we only support the CRT format. Support for other formats (like PFX) will come soon.

    The name of the extension CER, CRT doesn't make the certificate that type of certificate but, these are the excepted extensions names.

    CER is an X.509 certificate in binary form, DER encoded.

    CRT is a binary X.509 certificate, encapsulated in text (base-64) encoding.

    You can use OpenSSL to change a CER file into a CRT file. I have not had good luck with it but it looks like this.

    openssl x509 -inform PEM -in certificate.cer -out certificate.crt

    openssl x509 -inform DER -in certificate.cer -out certificate.crt

    Postman for Linux Version 6.7.1 - Ubuntu 18.04 - linux 4.15.0-43-generic / x64

    I had the same problem and by chance I replaced http://localhost with http://127.0.0.1 and everything worked.

    My etc/hosts had the proper entries for localhost and https://localhost requests always worked as expected.

    I have no clue why changing localhost for http with 127.0.0.1 solved the issue.

    None of these solutions works for me. Postman is not sending any request to the server because postman is not finding the host. So, if you modify your /etc/hosts to 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 subdomain.localhost

    It works for me.

    For me the issue was that the Content-Length was too big. I placed the content of the body in NotePad++ and counted the characters and put that figure in PostMan and then it worked.

    I know it does not directly answer why the op's sub-domain was not working but it might help out someone.

    The Postman returns the same error even if you send HTTP header content-encoding: gzip but the content is not gzipped. See stackoverflow.com/a/52854400/2988107 – Mišo May 29, 2019 at 6:00

    In my case it was invisible spaces that postman didn't recognize, the above string of text renders as without spaces in postman. I disabled SSL certificate Validation and System Proxy even tried on postman chrome extension(which is about to be deprecated), but when I downloaded and tried Insomnia and it gave those red dots in the place where those spaces were, must have gotten there during copy/paste

    For anyone who experienced this issue with real domain instead of localhost and couldn't solve it using ANY OF THE ABOVE solutions.

    Try changing your Network DNS (WIFI or LAN) to some other DNS. For me, I used Google DNS 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 and it worked!

    solution is very simple if you are using asp.net core 2 application . Inside ConfigureServices method inside startup.cs file all this line

    services.AddMvc()
                    .SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1)
                    .AddJsonOptions(x => x.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore);
    

    After all the above methods like turning OFF SSL certificate verification, turning ON only Use System Proxy and removing HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY system environment variables, it worked.

    Note: Had to restart the Postman app, since the environment variables were changed.

    Unchecking proxy and SSL Certificate Verification didn't work for me.

    Unsetting PROXY environment variables did the trick.

    export http_proxy=
    export ftp_proxy=
    export https_proxy=
    

    Change to the directory where Postman is installed and then:

    ./Postman
    

    In my case the (corporate) proxy was using a self-signed SSL certificate which Postman disliked. I discovered it by activating View->Show Postman console and retrying the request. The console then showed the certificate error. In Settings->General I disabled SSL certificate verification.

    The solution for me, as I'm using the deprecated Postman extension for Chrome, to solve this issue I had to:

  • Call some GET request using the Chrome Browser itself.
  • Wait for the error page "Your connection is not private" to appear.
  • Click on ADVANCED and then proceed to [url] (unsafe) link.
  • After this, requests through the extension itself should work.

    In my case it was a misconfigured subnet. Only one of the 2 subnets in the ELB worked.

    I figured this out by doing a nslookup and trying to curl the returned IPs directly. Only one worked. Postman just kept using the misconfigured one.

    I got the same "Could not get any response" issue because of wrong parameter in header. I fixed it by removing parameter HOST out of header.

    PS: Unfortunately, I was pushed to install the other software to get this information. It should be great to get this error message from Postman instead of getting general nonsense.

    I just experienced this error. In my case, the path was TOO LONG. So url like that gave me this error in postman (fake example)

    http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/batch/upload_import_deactivate_from_ready_folder
    

    whereas

    http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/batch/upld_impt_deac_ready_folder
    

    worked fine.

    Hope it helps someone who by accident read that far...

    We got this confusing error when a user accidentally copy/pasted a leading space character in an environment variable used to build the URL:

    Example:

    The request's URL was set to: http://{URL}/blah
    The {URL} environment variable had a value of " hostname" (**notice the leading space character**)
    

    This caused Postman to try to access http:// hostname/blah which gave this error message.

  •