Issue with post payload not passing through

[free-soellingeraj]

My script is:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Starting background job"
echo "Hook information: name=$hook_name, id=$hook_id, method=$hook_method"
echo "Query parameter: foo=$foo"
echo "Header parameter: user-agent=$user_agent"
echo "Script parameters: ${1}"


nohup ./scripts/long.sh >/tmp/long.log 2>&1  &

echo "Background job started."

I run the test as is outlined in the README.md

curl -d @test.json http://***.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/shoebox-test -u aaron:***** 

where test.json is

% cat test.json 
{"message": "this is a test"}

and my response shows the payload does not get passed through.

% curl -d @test.json http:/***.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080/shoebox-test -u aaron:****** 
Starting background job
Hook information: name=shoebox-test, id=12, method=POST
Query parameter: foo=
Header parameter: user-agent=curl/7.79.1
Script parameters: 
Background job started.

Can you suggest how I can debug?

[free-soellingeraj]

Here's the verbose output from curl:

% curl -d @test.json http://***.amazonaws.com:8080/shoebox-test -u aaron:****** -v
*   Trying ***:8080...
* Connected to ******.compute-1.amazonaws.com (***) port 8080 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'aaron'
> POST /shoebox-test HTTP/1.1
> Host: ec2-44-202-194-148.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080
> Authorization: ******
> User-Agent: curl/7.79.1
> Accept: */*
> Content-Length: 29
> Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> 
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Accept, Content-Type, Content-Length, Accept-Encoding, Authorization
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Cache-Control: no-cache
< Connection: keep-alive
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-Hook-Id: 13
< X-Request-Id: 1666192709856983487
< Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:18:29 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< 
Starting background job
Hook information: name=shoebox-test, id=13, method=POST
Query parameter: foo=
Header parameter: user-agent=curl/7.79.1
Script parameters: 
Background job started.
* Connection #0 to host ***.compute-1.amazonaws.com left intact

[free-soellingeraj]

By switching to debug level = DEBUG, I confirmed that the payload is getting to the server:

INF 2022/10/19 15:49:50.920017 hook shoebox-test#1 started...
DBG 2022/10/19 15:49:50.920021 hook shoebox-test#1 script: scripts/shoebox-test.sh
DBG 2022/10/19 15:49:50.920074 hook shoebox-test#1 parameter: [{"message":_"this_is_a_test"}= authorization=Basic YWFyb246MTIzNA== user_agent=curl/7.79.1 accept=*/* content_length=29 content_type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded]
DBG 2022/10/19 15:49:50.920268 hook shoebox-test#1 output file: /tmp/shoebox_test_1_20221019_1549.txt
INF 2022/10/19 15:49:50.922574 hook shoebox-test#1 done [SUCCESS]
INF 2022/10/19 15:49:50.922684 65.49.31.245 - - [19/Oct/2022:15:49:50 +0000] "POST /shoebox-test HTTP/1.1" 200 186 "" "curl/7.79.1" "REQID=1666194590919863614"

[ncarlier]

Hi, this is because your content-type.

Request body (depending the Media Type):
application/x-www-form-urlencoded: keys and values are converted to script variables
text/* or application/json: payload is transmit to the script as first parameter.

If you specify the content type with curl this should work as expected: curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' ...

[ncarlier]

BTW, you are right, the README is not correct and should specify the content type as well. Thanks for pointing this out.

[free-soellingeraj]

no problem, thanks!
That worked.