Building RESTful Python Web Services

Testing throttling policies

Now, we can launch Django's development server to compose and send HTTP requests. Execute any of the following two commands based on your needs to access the API in other devices or computers connected to your LAN. Remember that we analyzed the difference between them in Chapter 1 , Developing RESTful APIs with Django.

python manage.py runserver
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

After we run any of the previous commands, the development server will start listening at port 8000.

Now, we will compose and send an HTTP request to retrieve all the player's scores without authentication credentials six times:

http :8000/player-scores/

We can also use the features of the shell in macOS or Linux to run the previous command ...