Create User API giving 400 Bad Request Error

Hello, all, I am trying to create a new user using the "Create User" API. I'm sending the following and getting a 400 Bad Request error back. Does anyone have any ideas why? I already tried including the authentication_provider_id but that gave the same error. I'm doing this with c# code. I specify TLS 1.2 in the code. I have been successful doing a "GET" this way, but this "POST" isn't working for me.

Thank you in advance for any helpful information.

{
"pseudonym":
{
"sis_user_id":"1234567",
"unique_id":"personsname123"
},
"user":
{
"name":"Sample Person"
}
}

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unknown

I called support and the person helping me said I needed to send the parameters as url variables, not in the body of the request, which seems strange to me but it worked.

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MattHanes

I tried this payload in postman to the /accounts/1/users endpoint and it worked for me:

{
    "user":
        {
            "name": "Testing User",
            "skip_registration" : true
        },
    "pseudonym":
        {
            "unique_id": "2345677d76456789",
            "send_confirmation": true
        }
       
}

MattHanes

I also tried your payload in Postman and that worked so I don't think the payload is the problem.

unknown

Thank you, can you think of what else could be wrong to give me a 400 error?

unknown

Could you share what headers you are setting?

unknown

I called support and the person helping me said I needed to send the parameters as url variables, not in the body of the request, which seems strange to me but it worked.

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