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HTTP vocabulary & manual exploration

Methods, status codes, headers, JSON bodies, auth headers. Explore with curl and browser DevTools before you automate — vocabulary prevents guessing.

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Speak HTTP

GET reads (safe, idempotent). POST creates. PUT replaces. PATCH partial update. DELETE removes. Idempotency matters for retries.

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Example

curl -i https://httpbin.org/get
curl -X POST https://httpbin.org/post -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"name":"qa"}'

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Hit httpbin.org/get with curl. Inspect response headers and JSON body.

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Chapter learning outcomes
  • GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE
  • 2xx/4xx/5xx meaning
  • Headers: Content-Type, Authorization

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HTTP cheat sheet

Commit HTTP-NOTES.md: methods, codes, headers you use daily.