Empty body in GET request throws error

API
1

I’m using a third party app that sends requests with an empty body (e.g. {}) When a GET request is sent to /v1/threads/{{thread_id}}/messages it returns the following error:

{
    "error": {
        "message": "Invalid request to GET /v1/threads/{{thread_id}}/messages. You provided a body with this GET request. Either submit a POST request, or pass your arguments in the query string.",
        "type": "invalid_request_error",
        "param": null,
        "code": null
    }
}

Many other APIs won’t error out if the body is empty and some even allow for data in the body of a GET request and will still return the response data.

Is there any way around this? I can’t easily change the app to not send a blank body. And a body isn’t really being sent. Any suggestions would be helpful.

3

The response an API gives to a payload with an empty body depends on the design of the API.

If OpenAI’s API returns an error for a payload with an empty body, that behavior is part of the API’s specifications and cannot be changed.

I don’t know what the third-party app is doing, but if the third-party app cannot be modified to avoid sending a payload with an empty body, and if OpenAI’s API is designed to return an error for such a request, there is no workaround for this issue.

4

Prior to sending, check if the message is empty, and if it is, then you don’t send it. That would be the ideal solution for this.

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