September 16, 2021
HTTP is a protocol.
Like any protocol, HTTP defines communication rules between two points. Like your browser and a server for example.
When you visit a webpage you are sending an HTTP request and every HTTP request must have a response.
In the excerpt below, notice that a request was made to the localhost address, which in this case is the web server being run on my local machine just for testing. In real examples you could access any internet site via a public URL or via authentication.
At the end of the article I put together two very useful tools to test HTTP requests using Curl consuming data in JSON format.
Atenção aos trechos GET, HTTP/1.1 e 200 OK
GET é o método HTTP, onde a requisição diz ao destinatário localhost que ela quer pegar uma informação (GET).
HTTP/1.1 e 200 OK pertencem à resposta do servidor e mostram a versão do HTTP que está sendo utilizada e o status de retorno. Veja os demais status aqui Right pointing backhand index https://httpstatuses.com
O que são os métodos HTTP?
Some other methods: POST to create some information, PUT/PATCH to change, DELETE to remove, and so on.
Using methods, which are also known as verbs, the server can make decisions about what to do when an address is accessed.
Below are the requests to hypothetically return a customer's data, change the customer's data and the last one removes the customer.
Other very important points of an HTTP request are the headers and the body
How to send an HTTP request with headers?
Below is an example of a request with a header.
How to send an HTTP Post request?
And finally, a request with the POST method to simulate a login. Think of username and password as fields on an HTML form.
For the examples I used curl https://curl.se but you can use Postman to use a graphical interface and play around with various types of HTTP requests.
Two useful tools for testing HTTP requests
{JSON} Placeholder - API fake for testing and prototyping
JSON Placeholder it's a really cool tool. With it you can create a small server with JSON content for testing as well as test some predefined endpoints.
Curl Builder
Curl Builder it's another really cool tool and it's also very simple to use. Just fill in some fields such as the HTTP method, the URL, add headers and that's it: the HTTP request via Curl is displayed for you to copy and test in your terminal.
