API Testing Challenge - How To - HEAD todos 200

This post and video shows how to complete the challenge HEAD /todos (200) using Insomnia.

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HEAD /todos (200)

Issue a HEAD request on the /todos end point

HEAD request is basically a GET but doesn’t return the body
Use it to ‘ping’ an end point and see if it exists, or to check the Headers are working correctly
Usually returns a 200 (if it exists) or a 404 (if it doesn’t exist)

Basic Instructions

Issue a HEAD request to end point “/todos”
- if running locally that would be
  - http://localhost:4567/todos
- if running in the cloud that would be
  - https://apichallenges.herokuapp.com/todos
The request should have an X-CHALLENGER header to track challenge completion
The response status code should be 200 because the end point exists
Compare the response with the response from GET /todos

Insomnia Details

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

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Connection: keep-alive
< Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 14:09:19 GMT
< Content-Type: application/json
< X-Challenger: x-challenger-guid
< Server: Jetty(9.4.z-SNAPSHOT)
< Via: 1.1 vegur