Django RESTful Web Services

Making HTTP GET requests with Postman

Now, we will use one of the GUI tools we installed in Chapter 1, Installing the Required Software and Tools, specifically Postman. We will use this GUI tool to compose and send HTTP requests to the web service.

The first time you execute Postman, you will see a modal that provides shortcuts to the most common operations. Make sure you close this modal so that we can focus on the main UI for Postman.

We will use the Builder tab in Postman to easily compose and send diverse HTTP requests to localhost:8000 and test the RESTful Web Service with this GUI tool. Postman doesn't support curl-like shorthand for localhost, and therefore, we cannot use the same shorthand we have been using when composing requests ...