Now, we can launch Django's development server to compose and send HTTP requests. Execute any of the following two commands, based on your needs to access the API in other devices or computers connected to your LAN:
python manage.py runserverpython manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
After we run any of the previous commands, the development server will start listening at port 8000
.
Now, we will write a command to compose and send an HTTP GET
request to retrieve all the ESRB ratings whose description matches T (Teen)
. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_08_01
folder, in the Django01/cmd/cmd801.txt
file:
http ":8000/esrb-ratings/?description=T+(Teen)"
The following is the equivalent curl
command. The code file for the sample is included in the restful_python_2_08_01
folder, in the Django01/cmd/cmd802.txt
file:
curl -iX GET "localhost:8000/esrb-ratings/?description=T+(Teen)"
The following lines show a sample...