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- Sat Mar 11, 2017 9:40 am #63560 Hello everyone,
I need to send simple HTTP POST Request using ESP8266. It's containing data in "form-data".
It should look like this:

Code: Select allPOST http://testserver.com
{
  "auth_key":"key",
  "data":[
    {
      "key":"humidity",
      "value":50
    }
  ]
}

For the testing I was using Chrome application - Postman. And the HTTP Request code which I send was looking like this (it was automatically generated):

Code: Select allPOST /api/mes HTTP/1.1
Host: testserver.com
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 9b910ed2-afdc-2a11-4963-2f85626cfa4e
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW

------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="auth_key"

79bde0ff1efeaee90b1e432c08d324ecfdb532ac42406d7a9a87dd911e95f87e
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data"

[{"key":"humidity", "value":55}]
------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW--

And through Postman everything was okay. So then I sent it through ESP8266:

Code: Select allclient.setNoDelay(true);
client.println("POST /api/mes HTTP/1.1");
client.println("Host: testserver.com");
client.println("Cache-Control: no-cache");
client.println("Postman-Token: 9b910ed2-afdc-2a11-4963-2f85626cfa4e");
client.println("Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW");
client.println("");
client.println("------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW");
client.println("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"auth_key\"");
client.println("");
client.println("79bde0ff1efeaee90b1e432c08d324ecfdb532ac42406d7a9a87dd911e95f87e");
client.println("------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW");
client.println("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"data\"");
client.println("");
client.println("[{\"key\":\"humidity\", \"value\":55}]");
client.println("------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW--");


But unfortunately server is returning that the request is not correct. What can cause the problem? I'm struggling with it but I don't have any more ideas.