Connection refused and Connection timed out exception while sending a post request to the rest api

[Jamshaid]

I am trying to send a post request for login to my Rest API which should have a username and password in the body. I am trying to run the same request on POSTMAN and it works pretty fine whereas when I run the script on SccriptRunner with the same credentials and the URL it Says (Connection refused) and the whole log is as below

java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)
at org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainSocketFactory.java:121)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:180)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedClientConnectionImpl.open(ManagedClientConnectionImpl.java:326)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryConnect(DefaultRequestDirector.java:610)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:445)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.doExecute(AbstractHttpClient.java:835)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:72)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:221)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:165)
at groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder.doRequest(HTTPBuilder.java:515)
at groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder.doRequest(HTTPBuilder.java:434)
at groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder.request(HTTPBuilder.java:366)
at groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder$request.call(Unknown Source)
at Script1264.run(Script1264.groovy:9)

Here is my Script

if I try the IP address in the script, it says Connection timed out and if I use link address, it says connection refused. What U might be doing wrong?

import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder
import static groovyx.net.http.ContentType.*
import groovyx.net.http.ContentType
import static groovyx.net.http.Method.*
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
import net.sf.json.groovy.JsonSlurper

def http = new HTTPBuilder('http://address-to-api:port/login')
http.request(POST) {
requestContentType = ContentType.JSON
body = [username: 'username', password: 'password']

response.success = { resp, JSON ->

return JSON

}

response.failure = { resp ->
return "Request failed with status ${resp.status}"

}
}

I am putting the exact same link and credentials in the script which are working on POSTMAN and curl but it still says the connection refused and timed out. What might the error be?

thanks

[Jamshaid · Accepted solution]

I was having an issue with the server. otherwise, the code is working fine.

[Admin Jira]

Hi Jamshaid,

You can tell me what exactly the problem was in your server 

Thanks 

[Jamshaid]

@Admin Jirasorry. I have been away. my server was not allowing the connections to the specified port as I remember.