Sending Queries and Commands to the AnyLog Network with Postman

Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. It can serve as a tool to issue AnyLog Commands to nodes in the ANyLog Network and as a tool to issue queries to data that is hosted by nodes of the network.

Commands and queries through Postman can be issues with SSL enabled or disabled. You can download Postman here: https://www.postman.com/downloads/. We layout an example below for “GET” requests.

Without SSL

To run AnyLog queries using Postman without SSL enabled, follow the following steps:

  1. Open Postman
  2. Create a collection
  3. Add a request
  4. Enter the request URL and port number (the URL can also be an IP address)
  5. Add 2 header keys: “User-Agent” and “command” with values “AnyLog/1.23” and “[query command]”, respectively: github image
  6. Press send, and wait for a response

With SSL

For SSL, the explanation on generating the needed files is available at the Using SSL Certificates section.

To run AnyLog queries using Postman with SSL enabled, follow the following steps:

  1. Follow steps 1-3 above
  2. Enter the request URL and port number with “https://” prepended (the URL can also be an IP address) github image
  3. Add 2 header keys: “User-Agent” and “command” with values “AnyLog/1.23” and “[query command]”, respectively
  4. In “Settings” turn off the toggle for “Enable SSL certificate verification” github image
  5. In “Default Settings” add the certificate (public key) of the certificate authority
  6. Add your certificate and private key pair given by the certificate authority github image