500 status code while posting data through service now

Question

I'm trying to post some data through service now but getting 500. Header used : Accept:application/json Content-Type:application/json

What can be the reason behind 500?

When i tried to do the same thing using Rest client, I am getting 200 status code.

Your service is running on? And Rest Client is running on? Plz specify — Noor Nawaz, Sep 23 '15 at 05:49
I am simply trying to push some data based on some end-point. When i do that in rest client api its happening but with service now its throwing 500 — code98355, Sep 23 '15 at 05:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '15 at 11:39

I'm not sure if this applies to ServiceNow, but I've seen 500 errors before due to the user input being invalid, and there not being validation done on the server to ensure it's valid. When the application goes to put it into the database, it doesn't fit, and thus it generates the 500 server error.

If you haven't already, triple-check the user input you're POSTing to the server and confirm it's validity. Try something simple. Try creating the record through the web interface, looking at the POST request that your browser sends, and replicating the data that it sends in your own POST request.

Hope this helps,

Dylan

500 status code while posting data through service now

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