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How to complete the challenge HEAD /todos (200)
How to issue a HEAD request and see the results of a GET request without the body of the response, this can be useful for checking the existence of an item when automating.
HEAD /todos (200)
Issue a HEAD request on the
/todos
end point
HEAD
request is basically aGET
but doesn't return the body- Use it to 'ping' an end point and see if it exists, or to check the Headers are working correctly
- Usually returns a 200 (if it exists) or a 404 (if it doesn't exist)
Basic Instructions
- Issue a HEAD request to end point "/todos"
http://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todos
- The request should have an
X-CHALLENGER
header to track challenge completion - The response status code should be
200
because the end point exists - Compare the response with the response from
GET /todos
Example Request
> HEAD /todos HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.eviltester.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: */*
Example Response
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: keep-alive
< Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:09:19 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur
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