Can't Perform POST using REST API and Basic Authentication

Retired Boards Appdev Metafields
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I cannot create a record by performing a POST using Shopify’s REST API and Basic Authentication. For example, I tried performing a POST to the following URL:
https://{API [email removed]

Along with the body:
{
“metafield”: {
“namespace”: “global”,
“key”: “Test_Metafield”,
“value”: “Value for test metafield”,
“value_type”: “string”,
“description”: “This is the description”
}
}

When I try sending it no metafield gets created for the product. Instead, I get a status 200 with HTML as the response as shown below:

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I can perform GETs and PUTs in which I can retrieve metafield records as well as update existing metafields. But anytime I perform a POST (or create a new record), I get the same response as above.

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How are you making the request? Is this via the browser? Postman? Something else? I am guessing you’re sending cookies in the request so that’s being blocked for good security reasons. Remove those cookies and you may find the result differs.

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Thanks Jason! I was using Postman. Once I cleared all the cookies I was able to perform the post.

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I am currently programming an app that displays orders from Shopify. The program I am using is Delphi (Pascal) and trying to send and receive data using REST. The “GET” commands work without problems but when I try to create an order draft (“POST”) for example, it shows me the same error every time as above. What can be done ?

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how do you post with the delphi rest api? you must share a sample

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@robertjla If you need any further assistance, we could fix this for you. Its quiet simple.