API Testing Challenge 22 - How To - Post todos 415 status unsupported content type

API Testing Challenge 22 - How To - Post todos 415 status unsupported content type

API Testing Challenge 22 - How To - Post todos 415 status unsupported content type

How to complete the challenge POST /todos (415) to send a POST request to try and create a todo item but with unsupported content type.

Issue a POST request on the /todos end point with an unsupported content type to generate a 415 status code

For this challenge we issue a request with a content-type which is unsupported.

- POST request means we will send information in the body of the message
- e.g. POST /todos sends to the todos endpoint
- unsupported content type means that we will set content-type to something unknown eg. bob
- add the X-CHALLENGER header to track progress
- we know it has been rejected when we receive a 415 response
- the body of the response should contain the full details of the error message

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