breakpoint not hit when using REST-clients

[hartmut stippich]

Breakpoints do not hit when launching a request by REST-Client, like postman.
I have installed VS2015 and latest phptools.1.20.9095.msi.
For test I have created a simple index.php having just one line: phpinfo(); On this, I have set a breakpoint. Internal php engine is used for execution.
When launching the request by web browser (http://localhost:46xxx/?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=92xxxxxx) the breakpoint is hit as expected and the html response is renedered as expected when continuing. When doing the same on postman, the response is the same, but breakpoint is NOT working.

what to do?

[Miloslav Beno]

Hello,

Xdebug just doesn't know it should start to debug and connect VS. You can just add xdebug.remote_autostart = 1 to php.ini file. https://docs.devsense.com/debugging/troubleshooting#debugger-wont-work-when-dont-open-a-page-wait-for-a-request-from

Please let me know if that helped.

Thanks,

[hartmut stippich]

yes, this helped. thanks for reply

[Miloslav Beno]

Perfect!

I'm glad I could help.

Have a great weekend,