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How to complete the challenge GET /todo 404.

How to solve challenge GET todo 404 by issuing a GET request on a non-existent endpoint and receive a 404 status code response.

GET /todo (404)

Issue a GET request on the /todo end point should 404 because nouns should be plural

• This will show you an error status code 404
• 404 means 'not found' i.e. we tried to access something that does not exist
• REST API Endpoints are usually plural e.g. /todos we would not normally expect an API to respond to both /todos and /todo

Basic Instructions

• Issue a GET request to end point "/todo"
  • https://apichallenges.eviltester.com/todo
• The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header
• The response status code should be 404

Example Request

> GET /todo HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.eviltester.com
> User-Agent: rest-client
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: */*

Example Response

< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Connection: close
< Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:46:19 GMT
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur

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