In a previous Upskill Challenge, Katie Paxton-Fear took less than 30 minutes to introduce you to the basics of APIs and the most common API types you’ll see on the web including GraphQL, RESTful, gRPC, SOAP and web socket APIs. This time she focuses on one of those type… RESTfulAPIs.
RESTful APIs are Katie’s favourite things to hack, because they are everywhere and they often lack key security measures. Give her another small chunk of your time, and she will give you the basics of RESTful APIs, how to interact with them and why they’re so vulnerable.
Price = FREE!
What’s an Upskill Challenge (UC)?
A UC is a CTF-style, bite-sized lesson from the JHT Team, our courseware developers as well as “friends” of JHT. They are meant to be short and to the point. UCs focus on a single tool or concept and are helpful in quickly providing useful skills that might be prerequisites for other types of educational content on the platform.
A UC should be 10 – 30 minutes of student time and have no VMs. There are quizzes to make sure that the content is understood.
Prerequisites
UCs assume no knowledge at all! They’re meant to be completely self-contained, so all of the answers are in the lesson. No outside research is required.
