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Mockbin and BPA (Formerly Taskcentre)

I use http://mockbin.org/ to test web service calls, and quite recently have been using it with BPA in order to test integrations when access to a live service is not available.

Recently I’ve had an issue with BPA not picking up MockBin correctly and completely ignoring the data which has been returned via the web service call.

After lots of head scratching, in order to fix this, I had to add the headers of “charset: utf-8”. After adding this, Mockbin works perfectly with BPA.

Example below:

{
  "status": 200,
  "statusText": "OK",
  "httpVersion": "HTTP/1.1",
  "headers": [
    {
      "name": "Content-Type",
      "value": "application/xml"
    },
    {
      "name": "charset",
      "value": "utf-8"
    }
  ],
  "cookies": [],
  "content": {
    "mimeType": "application/xml",
    "text": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>\n<tests>\n<test>\n<status>Example</status>\n</test>\n</tests>",
    "size": 0
  },
  "redirectURL": "",
  "bodySize": 0,
  "headersSize": 0
}