Exploratory Testing of an HTTP REST API with Postman for Response Validation and BurpSuite proxy
A short exploratory testing session on a REST API running locally using Postman and BurpSuite.
Using Postman to validate the messages and the syntax checking in Postman highlights a bug in the REST Service under test.
Also find some inconsistencies between proxy raw messages and the Postman display of headers sent and received.
This session was a simple exploratory testing session based around the documentation supplied by the REST API application.
- Postman runs through a proxy when: start proxy, ensure browser works through proxy, start postman to go through proxy
- Postman pretty print view shows errors - which points to a missing Content-Type header in the response - which is a bug in the REST server
- Postman show slightly different headers sent through proxy - there were differences in content-length
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