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searain
searain

Reputation: 3301

Neo4j REST API Get request from browser vs Get method from REST Client

Neo4j API url is: http://localhost:7474/db/data

When I use Chrome visiting this url, which is a GET request. This is the response I gotResponse page from chrome browsing

But when I use the restful client such as POSTMAN to make a g request.

This is the response I got.Response from POSTMAN GET request

My questions are

Both are GET request to the same url. Why Chrome browsing get a html page in return but Postman Request get JSON Response in return.

How Neo4j does that?

Is Neo4j using user agent detection, and if it is a browser visiting, it will give HTML page as response. And if it is a rest client request, it will give json response?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 753

Answers (1)

mszymborski
mszymborski

Reputation: 1654

They use media type negotiation header. For example when requesting this site my browser sends a header like that:

Accept: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"

As you can see it accepts primarily html, if that's not available then xhtml, then pure xml, and if that's not available - it accepts whatever the server can throw at it. Neo4j's website tries to serve content in that order. Postman likely just specifies application/json, or nothing at all (the application determines the default media type then), hence the response.

Upvotes: 1

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