A short overview of using cURL and HTTP Proxy to issue requests to the Tracks REST API

A short video showing an overview of cURL and Charles Proxy and the Tracks API documentation.

This is a support video for the book "Automating and Testing a REST API - A Case study in REST API Testing and Automating using: Java, RestAssured, Tracks, Postman, cURL and HTTP Proxies" by Alan Richardson.

You'll see:

- cURL
- HTTP Proxy
- Charles HTTP Proxy
- resending HTTP Requests
- creating custom API requests in a proxy
- sending cURL requests through a proxy

The easiest HTTP Proxies to use are:

You could also use:

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[Hatchet]

In case anyone else is getting a redirect html message back when executing their curl commands. I used the -v switch to check what the issue was... turns out it was an SSL issue so I used the -k switch to disable SSL verification. Probably not the right thing to do but it was a good workaround for me.

[ragu]

How do I make charles proxy capture traffic only from a particular process/browser tab ?