December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
12h 33m
English
Content preview from Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition
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Working with GUI tools - Postman and others
So far, we have been working with two Terminal-based or command-line tools to compose and send HTTP requests to our Django development server: cURL and HTTPie. Now we will work with Postman, one of the GUI tools we used when composing and sending HTTP requests to the Flask development server on Chapter 1, Developing RESTful APIs and Microservices with Flask 1.0.2. If you skipped this chapter, make sure you check the installation instructions in the section named Working with GUI tools - Postman and others in that chapter.
Once you launch Postman, make sure you close the modal dialog box that provides shortcuts to common tasks. Select GET Request in the + new drop-down menu at the upper-left corner ...