# MALFORMED_BODY: Malformed request body

> The body is not JSON, or not the shape this endpoint takes. The detail says where it went wrong.

Sent by the management API (400). The page: https://coho-cms.com/errors/malformed-body/

## What to do

Send a JSON body of the shape the API reference gives, with `Content-Type: application/json`.

## The response

```json
{
  "code": "MALFORMED_BODY",
  "type": "https://coho-cms.com/errors/malformed-body",
  "title": "Malformed request body",
  "status": 400,
  "detail": "What went wrong in this request, in a sentence.",
  "instance": "/v1/projects/…"
}
```

Every error code: https://coho-cms.com/errors/