RequestAsync not sending body on a POST request?

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Hey,

I’ve been developing an external datastore system using the App Engine with Google Cloud.

I used this code to make a POST request

local HTTPService = game:GetService("HttpService")

print(HTTPService:RequestAsync({
	Url = "https://censored.com/data/post",
	Method = "POST",
	Headers = {
		["api-token"] = "censored",
		["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
	},
	Body = HTTPService:JSONEncode({
		UID = "64881507"
	})
}))

And here is the code that I use on my node.js backend:

REST_API.post('/data/post', (Request, Response) => {
    console.log(Request)
	if (Request.headers['api-token'] == API_Token) {
		if (Request.body != null) {
			Response.status(200).send(upsertUser(Request.body.UID, Request.body.Points));
		} else {
			Response.status(400).send('Please provide a body!')
		}
	}
    
	Response.status(401).send('Unauthorized.');
});

For some reason when I make a POST request, the backend sends status code 400:
image

Does anyone know what is happening here and why it seems like the Body isn’t getting sent?

2

Responding with the body right away shows that it’s empty. Anyone know what’s going on?

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3

Turns out when using express.js you need to write use a body parser.

REST_API.use(Express.json());
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