# Acessing return value from gateway event scripts

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/acessing-return-value-from-gateway-event-scripts/44147>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 5, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/acessing-return-value-from-gateway-event-scripts/44147 "2021-03-05T12:52:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![kp.krishnaprasad97](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kp.krishnaprasad97](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kp.krishnaprasad97)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/acessing-return-value-from-gateway-event-scripts/44147/1 "2021-03-05T12:52:44Z")

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I have a gateway message handler  
I want to return message part of this payload using system.util.sendRequest()  
But I’m getting an error using this function,How to solve it

 ![Screenshot from 2021-03-05 18-18-34](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/8/e/8ef84ddcadc5c6afd8ca606808cb81e584cdc41d.png)  
gateway Message handler script  
 ![Screenshot from 2021-03-05 18-20-18](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/b/9b7020967d9a7d2712dad85230c28d6ac8200e62.png) button  
script using send system.util.sendRequest()  
 ![Screenshot from 2021-03-05 18-21-43](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/c/4c742ae600eb8d9e1dad62738d704844c5eae0bc.png)  
error message

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/acessing-return-value-from-gateway-event-scripts/44147/2 "2021-03-05T12:59:45Z")

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You aren’t providing a payload when calling `.sendRequest()`. So the message handler in the gateway is naturally not finding anything in `payload`.

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**Author:** ![kp.krishnaprasad97](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kp.krishnaprasad97](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kp.krishnaprasad97)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/acessing-return-value-from-gateway-event-scripts/44147/3 "2021-03-05T13:05:50Z")

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OK  
But how to give the payload Msg in previous message handler script in gateway