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@@ -676,15 +676,47 @@ Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
</code></pre>
<p>In another terminal window, we can test the server.</p>
-<p>We can get a list of all of the snippets.</p>
-<pre><code>curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/
-
-[{"id": 1, "title": "", "code": "foo = \"bar\"\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"}, {"id": 2, "title": "", "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"}]
+<p>We can test our API using using <a href="http://curl.haxx.se">curl</a> or <a href="https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie#installation">httpie</a>. Httpie is a user friendly http client that's written in Python. Let's install that.</p>
+<p>You can install httpie using pip:</p>
+<pre><code>pip install httpie
</code></pre>
-<p>Or we can get a particular snippet by referencing its id.</p>
-<pre><code>curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/2/
-
-{"id": 2, "title": "", "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n", "linenos": false, "language": "python", "style": "friendly"}
+<p>Finally, we can get a list of all of the snippets:</p>
+<pre><code>http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/
+
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+...
+[
+ {
+ "id": 1,
+ "title": "",
+ "code": "foo = \"bar\"\n",
+ "linenos": false,
+ "language": "python",
+ "style": "friendly"
+ },
+ {
+ "id": 2,
+ "title": "",
+ "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n",
+ "linenos": false,
+ "language": "python",
+ "style": "friendly"
+ }
+]
+</code></pre>
+<p>Or we can get a particular snippet by referencing its id:</p>
+<pre><code>http http://127.0.0.1:8000/snippets/2/
+
+HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+...
+{
+ "id": 2,
+ "title": "",
+ "code": "print \"hello, world\"\n",
+ "linenos": false,
+ "language": "python",
+ "style": "friendly"
+}
</code></pre>
<p>Similarly, you can have the same json displayed by visiting these URLs in a web browser.</p>
<h2 id="where-are-we-now">Where are we now</h2>