diff --git a/vpro-shared-elasticsearch-client/src/main/java/nl/vpro/elasticsearchclient/IndexHelper.java b/vpro-shared-elasticsearch-client/src/main/java/nl/vpro/elasticsearchclient/IndexHelper.java
index ebb9044a6..f07e19709 100644
--- a/vpro-shared-elasticsearch-client/src/main/java/nl/vpro/elasticsearchclient/IndexHelper.java
+++ b/vpro-shared-elasticsearch-client/src/main/java/nl/vpro/elasticsearchclient/IndexHelper.java
@@ -590,7 +590,10 @@ public final ObjectNode sendEntity(String method, String path, HttpEntity entity
                 c.accept(req);
             }
             log.debug("Posting to {}", path);
-            return read(client().performRequest(req));
+
+            var response = client().performRequest(req);
+
+            return read(response);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
             throw new RuntimeException(e);
@@ -688,7 +691,7 @@ public ObjectNode index(String id, Object o) {
 
     public ObjectNode index(String id, byte[] o) {
         HttpEntity entity = entity(o);
-        return postEntity(indexPath(id), entity(o));
+        return putEntity(indexPath(id), entity);
     }
 
     public ObjectNode index(String id, Object o, Consumer<ObjectNode> sourceConsumer) {
@@ -701,7 +704,7 @@ public ObjectNode index(String id, Object o, Consumer<ObjectNode> sourceConsumer
     /**
      */
     public ObjectNode indexWithRouting(String id, byte[] o, String routing) {
-        return postEntity(indexPath(id), entity(o), req -> req.addParameter(ROUTING, routing));
+        return putEntity(indexPath(id), entity(o), req -> req.addParameter(ROUTING, routing));
     }
 
     /**
@@ -734,7 +737,7 @@ protected String indexPath(String id) {
     }
 
     protected String _indexPath(String type, @Nullable String id, @Nullable String parent) {
-        String path = getIndexName() + "/" + type + (id == null ? "" : ("/" + encode(id)));
+        String path = '/' + getIndexName() + "/" + type + (id == null ? "" : ("/" + encode(id)));
         if (parent != null) {
             path += "?parent=" + parent;
         }
@@ -811,7 +814,7 @@ public  Optional<JsonNode> get(String id){
             ArrayNode docs = objectNode.withArray("docs");
 
             for (JsonNode n : docs) {
-                boolean found = n.get("found").asBoolean();
+                boolean found = n.has("found") && n.get("found").asBoolean();
                 if (found) {
                     result.add(Optional.of(n));
                 } else {
@@ -1112,7 +1115,11 @@ protected static HttpEntity bulkEntity(Collection<BulkRequestEntry> request) {
     static protected String saveToString(JsonNode jsonNode) {
         String value = jsonNode.toString();
         return value.replaceAll("\\p{Cc}", "");
+    }
 
+    @SneakyThrows
+    static protected byte[]  saveToArray(JsonNode jsonNode)  {
+        return LENIENT.writer().writeValueAsBytes(jsonNode);
     }
 
     @Override