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Talk to your server without a browser

Drive every route from curl, wrong methods, missing bodies, absurd content types, and watch what your service says when nobody is being polite.

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Build this in your own editor

This one runs on your machine rather than in the browser workbench. Work to the outcomes below, then come back and mark it complete.

You should now be able to

  • Exercise an API from the command line
  • Read a raw response including status line and headers
  • Find at least two responses you did not intend to write
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