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Exercise

Using request and response headers

Headers contain additional information about your API calls, including the desired or used response format. Using accept and content-type headers, client and server can negotiate what response format to use.

In this exercise, you'll use headers to inspect response formats after making a request and make a new request specifying the desired format via the accept header.

The requests package has been imported for your convenience.

Instructions 1/3

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  • 1

    Find out the content-type of the response by printing out the response content-type header.

  • 2

    Find out what content-types the server can respond with by printing out the response accept header.

  • 3

    Add an accept header to the request so the server returns JSON formatted data, then print the response text attribute.