API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todo 404

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge GET /todo 404 using Insomnia.

What are the API Challenges?

Our API Challenges Application has a fully functional cloud hosted API, and a set of challenges to work through.

GET /todo (404)

Issue a GET request on the /todo end point should 404 because nouns should be plural

This will show you an error status code 404
404 means ’not found’ i.e. we tried to access something that does not exist
REST API Endpoints are usually plural e.g. /todos we would not normally expect an API to respond to both /todos and /todo

Basic Instructions

Issue a GET request to end point “/todo”
- if running locally that would be
  - http://localhost:4567/todo
- if running in the cloud that would be
  - https://apichallenges.herokuapp.com/todo
The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header
The response status code should be 404

Insomnia Details

> GET /todo HTTP/1.1
> Host: apichallenges.herokuapp.com
> User-Agent: insomnia/2020.3.3
> X-CHALLENGER: x-challenger-guid
> Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Connection: close
< Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:46:19 GMT
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur