REST Hello World!

REST hello world example ======================== To try this example, you need GNU `make`, `git` and [relx](https://github.com/erlware/relx) in your PATH. To build the example, run the following command: ``` bash $ make ``` To start the release in the foreground: ``` bash $ ./_rel/bin/hello_world_example console ``` Then point your browser at [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080). Example output -------------- Request HTML: ``` bash $ curl -i http://localhost:8080 HTTP/1.1 200 OK connection: keep-alive server: Cowboy date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:15:52 GMT content-length: 136 content-type: text/html vary: Accept REST Hello World!

REST Hello World as HTML!

``` Request JSON: ``` bash $ curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" http://localhost:8080 HTTP/1.1 200 OK connection: keep-alive server: Cowboy date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:16:46 GMT content-length: 24 content-type: application/json vary: Accept {"rest": "Hello World!"} ``` Request plain text: ``` bash $ curl -i -H "Accept: text/plain" http://localhost:8080 HTTP/1.1 200 OK connection: keep-alive server: Cowboy date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:18:35 GMT content-length: 25 content-type: text/plain vary: Accept REST Hello World as text! ``` Request a non acceptable content-type: ``` bash $ curl -i -H "Accept: text/css" http://localhost:8080 HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable connection: keep-alive server: Cowboy date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:18:51 GMT content-length: 0 ```