Postman returns 404, while website returns 200

Question

I have a Laravel sever serving an api at http://localhost:8000/api/v1_0/login.

This API when hit from the web page (a login form) works fine with 200 OK status, however when I try to hit the same API with Postman, it returns me 404. I'm sure that my headers and URL spellings are correct. Is this a bug? what else could be the reason?

Answer 1

Just in case someone still need an answer for this. I checked the answer posted by @ZI3n but the solution didn't worked for me.

Postman was receiving a String text\html which is a default Content-Type so I suspected the code I used to processed the JSON was, somehow, forming a string not recognized by Postman as a JSON. But when was received I could see it as JSON, if changed the body type to JSON.

Because of this the request was being received as JSON formatted text but was not recognized as a JSON content, and since I was expecting a JSON the status code was ignored and replaced with 404 Not Found. Not sure if this was by the server or Postman.

So I visited the URL directly on the browser, and it was obvious that the JSON was displayed but still read as text/html and not as application/json

The next step was to refactor the code again, this time I reprocessed the JSON string by assigning the string to a variable $json as follow:

//assigning previous json string to $json
$json = $originalEchoedJsonString;

//reprocessing the string a converting it back to object
$newJson = json_decode($json);

//preparing to be send

//if PHP version 5.4+
http_response_code(200);

// Any PHP version specially 5.3 and under
header('HTTP/1.1 200 Ok', true, 200);

header('Content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8;');

//echoing JSON back with json_encode();
echo json_encode($newJson);

After doing this I sent the request with Postman again and voila, I got a 200 Ok status and the string was properly displayed as a JSON file. Also was recognized by the browser JSON formatter as a JSON.