Composing and sending HTTP requests
The HTTP server is running in Yocto Linux and waiting for our HTTP requests to control the LEDs on connected to the Intel Galileo Gen 2 board. Now, we will compose and send HTTP requests locally in Yocto Linux and then from other computer or devices connected to our LAN.
HTTPie supports curl-like shorthands for localhost. For example, :8888 is a shorthand that expands to http://localhost:8888. We already have an SSH terminal running the HTTP server, and therefore, we can run the following command in another SSH terminal.
http GET :8888/version
The previous command will compose and send the following HTTP request: GET http://localhost:8888/version. The request is the simplest case in our RESTful API because it ...
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