# API requests with rasa server working weirdly

**URL:** https://forum.rasa.com/t/api-requests-with-rasa-server-working-weirdly/36805
**Category:** Rasa Open Source
**Created:** [November 9, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/api-requests-with-rasa-server-working-weirdly/36805 "2020-11-09T07:46:40Z")
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### Author: ![nlpforlife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@nlpforlife](https://forum.rasa.com/u/nlpforlife)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/api-requests-with-rasa-server-working-weirdly/36805/1 "2020-11-09T07:46:40Z")

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I set up a Rasa server and tried sending API requests over through postman.

I then start the Rasa server using Rasa shell before sending the post request over.

The following is the API endpoint I used.

[http://ipaddress:5005/webhooks/rest/webhook](http://ipaddress:5005/webhooks/rest/webhook)

The following is a sample of my body of the API request I sent over : {

“sender”: “test\_user3”,

“message”: “hi”

}

However, the request does not finish sending. The response only appears after I cancel the Rasa server from running. Can anyone tell me why this is so?

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### Author: ![tyd](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.rasa.com/tyd/32/3030_2.png) [@tyd](https://forum.rasa.com/u/tyd)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/api-requests-with-rasa-server-working-weirdly/36805/2 "2020-11-09T18:54:19Z")

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Hi @nlpforlife. What response do you get when you [run a health check](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/pages/http-api#operation/getHealth)? What about when you [check the status](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/pages/http-api#operation/getStatus)? And what [version of Rasa Open Source](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/pages/http-api#operation/getVersion) are you using?