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Structure of a Request and Response

Explore the foundational structure of REST API requests and responses in Python. Understand CRUD operations and their HTTP method equivalents, along with key request elements like endpoints, headers, and body parameters. Learn how data is managed and exchanged through practical scenarios.

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Before moving on to the structure of a request and a response, it is important to understand CRUD operations.

What does CRUD stand for?

CRUD is an abbreviation for Create, Read, Update, and Delete. These are some of the main things that you might want to do when you are communicating with your client and server. On a REST API, the equivalent of those are actually HTTP methods or HTTPS operations.

  1. What’s the equivalent of “create” in an HTTP method?

    It is POST. A POST request is used to send data to the server, for example, customer information, file upload, some confidential data, etc. In other words, we use POST when we want to submit the data to the server, which needs to be processed by the specified resource.

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