# Help with HTTP requests - POST
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-http-requests-post/44119
**Category:** Libraries
**Created:** [March 19, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-http-requests-post/44119 "2024-03-19T09:12:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@chatNoir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/chatNoir)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-http-requests-post/44119/1 "2024-03-19T09:12:58Z")
I need some help with rest api from Processing. I’m using HTTP Request for Processing library, but I can’t get addFile() to locate my image file. Image file is saved in data folder.
Error message received: “I/O exception (java.io.FileNotFoundException) caught when processing request: image\_1.jpeg (The system cannot find the file specified)”
Library reference: [HTTP-Requests-for-Processing/src/http/requests/PostRequest.java at master · runemadsen/HTTP-Requests-for-Processing · GitHub](https://github.com/runemadsen/HTTP-Requests-for-Processing/blob/master/src/http/requests/PostRequest.java)
API used: [https://my.plantnet.org/](https://my.plantnet.org/)
My code:
```auto
import http.requests.*;
public void setup()
{
size(400,400);
smooth();
File img = new File("image_1.jpeg");
PostRequest post = new PostRequest("https://my-api.plantnet.org/v2/identify/all?api-key=MY_API_KEY_REMOVED");
post.addFile("images", img);
post.addData("organs", "['flower']");
post.send();
System.out.println("Reponse Content: " + post.getContent());
System.out.println("Reponse Content-Length Header: " + post.getHeader("Content-Length"));
}
```
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-http-requests-post/44119/2 "2024-03-19T09:45:14Z")
> [@chatNoir](#):
>
> ```auto
>
> File img = new File("image_1.jpeg");
>
> ```
In my opinion the error occurs in this line and has nothing to do with the post request
Are you sure the file is in the sketch directory?
please try `....File(sketchPath("image_1.jpeg"));`
(Also, maybe it’s jpg or JPEG, this is not always correctly shown by Windows)
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-http-requests-post/44119/3 "2024-03-19T09:46:27Z")
Or use `loadImage(...);` instead of `File`
in combination with `PImage img;` ?
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### Author:  [@chatNoir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/chatNoir)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/help-with-http-requests-post/44119/4 "2024-03-19T13:25:40Z")
> [@Chrisir](#):
>
> please try …File(sketchPath(“image\_1.jpeg”));
Using sketchPath() works!
Thank you, I appreciate it.