Send a request#

The primary button on the URL bar sends the request you have built and shows the reply below. This page covers that button, the states the response area moves through, and where the result goes next.

Press the send button#

The primary action button sits beside the URL field. For an HTTP request its tooltip reads Send Request. Select it to send, or press Enter while the URL field has focus.

The button acts on whatever the request tabs currently hold: the method, URL, query parameters, headers, authentication, body, and settings. For how those parts combine into what goes on the wire, see How it works.

If the URL field is empty, a red message reads URL is required. The client sends nothing. Add a URL and send again.

Read the three response states#

The response area shows one state at a time.

• No response yet: you have not sent a request from this tab.
• Sending request: the request is in flight. The request tabs stay editable.
• The filled panel: the reply arrived. It reports a coloured status badge such as 200 OK, the time taken, and the response size in B, KB, or MB, with a button to copy the response and a button to save it to a file.

If the request cannot complete, the response area shows the error instead. Name resolution failures, refused connections, and timeouts all surface here. A request stops once it passes the timeout on the Settings tab. That timeout starts at 30000 milliseconds.

For what each response tab holds, see Reading a response.