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POST Challenger 201 Solution

How to complete the challenge POST /challenger 201.

POST /challenger (201)

Issue a POST request on the /challenger end point, with no body, to create a new challenger session. Use the generated X-CHALLENGER header in future requests to track challenge completion.

• This challenge is essential if you want to persist your sessions in multi-user mode
• This challenge is optional if you want to work in single-user mode

Basic Instructions

• Issue a POST request to end point "/challenger"
  • https://apichallenges.eviltester.com/challenger
• The response will have an X-CHALLENGER header
• Use this in any future requests to track your progress
• The LOCATION header has a url to access your challenge status through the GUI

Example Request

POST /challenger HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:4567
User-Agent: rest-client
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 0

Example Response

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:26:48 GMT
X-CHALLENGER: rest-api-challenges-single-player
Location: /gui/challenges
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)

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