HTTP request error from running Postman Collection tests with Newman?

Question

I've been using the new commandline for Postman, Newman, and have been attempting to run Collection tests that work fine when I pass them through the packaged app Jetpacks add-on, but do not run properly in the commandline. Although the json Collection file that I am passing does contain the proper header declarations, I don't have any other clues at this point, so I suspect that this may be an HTTP header issue. But I am not sure exactly what is wrong, as I am rather new to using Postman.

The tests that I'm trying to run are on some calls to an ASP.Net web API, very simple server response-checking one-line javascript tests like the ones in this tutorial.

A sample line that I enter into the console:

$ newman -c collectionfile.json -e environmentfile.json -n 5

achieves such a result:

RequestError: [token] terminated. Error: undefined

Any suggestions/help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I ran into this problem as well and spent quite a few hours trying to figure it out. Eventually I realized that an address such as "www.google.com" will work in the chrome plugin UI, but not in Newman. For it to work in Newman, the address must be "https://www.google.com". Also, make sure that you have your data file (if you are using variables like {{url}}) set up correctly. You can use "-d dataFile.json" to define a data file. More information on that here.