Hi, I am trying to connect my bot with a chat interface on a website using REST API. Before doing so I started testing the available web server routes. All the GET requests work prefectly fine, but I am getting errors when I try executing POST requests. Additional Info - I have the bot running on a remote docker container. I used the image rasa/rasa:latest-spacy-en $curl http://<server-ip>:<port>/webhooks/rest {"status":"ok"} $curl http://<server-ip>:<port>/ Hello from Rasa: 1.1.4 $curl http://<server-ip>:<port>/webhooks/rest/webhook -d '{"sender":"default","message":"Hello"}' Error: Failed when parsing body as json $curl http://<server-ip>:<port>/model/parse -d '{"text":"Hello"}' {"version":"1.1.4","status":"failure","message":"An unexpected error occurred. Error: Failed when parsing body as json","reason":"ParsingError","details":{},"help":null,"code":500} And I found this in the container logs ## Server side error message During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/app.py", line 917, in handle_request response = await response File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/asyncio/coroutines.py", line 110, in __next__ return self.gen.send(None) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/channels/channel.py", line 433, in receive sender_id = await self._extract_sender(request) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/asyncio/coroutines.py", line 110, in __next__ return self.gen.send(None) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/channels/channel.py", line 393, in _extract_sender return req.json.get("sender", None) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/request.py", line 143, in json self.load_json() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/request.py", line 153, in load_json raise InvalidUsage("Failed when parsing body as json") sanic.exceptions.InvalidUsage: Failed when parsing body as json Any suggestion on what I would be wrong? or am I missing any configurations?

Hi @saida Yes I did. I was using “rasa run -vv --enable-api”. I changed this to “rasa run -m models --enable-api --cors ‘*’ --debug” and it started working. Give it a try and let me know if its not working.

Error in HTTP POST requests - RESTfulAPI

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JiteshGaikwad (Jitesh Gaikwad) July 8, 2019, 3:12pm 2

Hey @shreyask92, you can refer this post

Hope this helps you

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