RESTful and SOAP calls

Restful - specification

RFC 3986 defines URIs as case-sensitive except for the scheme and host components. e.g.

Resources

• Resource naming

Use curl to test RESTful API

curl --insecure -X GET \
 --header "Accept: application/json" \
 --header "Authorization: Bearer geasrExampleTokengwsdvb" \
 "https://host1.aws.example.com/ApiBaseLocation/v1/ApiName/Value"

Options explained

• --insecure disables ssl checks like the certificate chain check, etc.
• -X, --request <command> it defaults to GET commands, check HTTP1.1 specification for more
• -H, --header <header> (HTTP) Extra header to include in the request when sending HTTP to a server

Use Chrome addon Postman

Run Chrome in ssl disable verification mode in case you hit CN url mismatch in SSL certificate

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --ignore-certificate-errors

HTTP Prompt – An Interactive Command Line HTTP Client

Install

pip install http-prompt        #requires root and sudo is not advised
pip install --user http-prompt #local install in ~/.local/bin/http-prompt

Use

http-prompt http://localhost:3000
http-prompt localhost:3000/api --auth user:pass username=somebody

HTTPie online tool

sudo apt-get install httpie

Resources

• http-prompt.com
• http-prompt-command-line-http-client
• HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans Github

References

• How to test a REST api from command line with curl codingpedia.org
• Chrome Postan Addon advanced UI addon to test Restful API. You may need to disable SSL verification in chrome://flags/#allow-insecure-localhost
• List of Chromium Command Line Switches Chrome command line options