API Workflow Header requirements

Need help APIs
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I am trying to trigger an API workflow externally using an IOT device. I have not successfully connected to the API from the IOT device but can easily do so from online API testing sites.

I sent a request from the IOT device and from REGBIN to Webhook.site to compare them. The only difference that I can find between the Device POST and the Testing Site POST is a few header items.

Does anyone know if there are specific header items that are required to trigger the API workflows? Also is there a specific port that I should use for the request? The IOT device default is 443. Any help is greatly appreciated

Headers from IOT device
content-length: 17
content-type: application/json
host: webhook.site:443
connection: close

Headers from Testing Site
connection: close
content-length: 17
x-real-ip: 174.250.56.3
content-type: application/json
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.212 Safari/537.36
accept-encoding:deflate, gzip
accept :*/*
host: webhook.site

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Do you have any error from iOT device?
I don’t know if Bubble aks for that, but a lot of API expect user-agent header

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The iOT device says +CME ERROR: connection failed

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Does the user-agent value matter as long it has a key value pair?

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Normally it doesnt matter. It’s more to know the origin of the request.
Did you check your settings like API key? and be sure your request is correct?
I suggest that you send the request from iOT to a requestbin.com that will help you inspect the payload sent to Bubble, not just the header

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Thanks so much for your help! Just tried adding user-agent: IP to the header which did not make any difference.

Right now I have authentication turned off, so there is no API key needed right?

The payload appears to be exactly the same in requestbin/pipedream.

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Hi @ranchdev, did you manage to get this to work? I also have an app in Bubble and I want to integrate it with IoT but I don’t know how to do it, if it worked and can you share how I thank you