Rackspace Load Balancer GET Response API

Rackspace Load Balancer is a Cost Effective Great Pay as You Go Multi-tenant Cloud Service. Here Are Some Examples of GET Response API. We will use CocoaRestClient on OS X for demonstrating the usages. Without really the need to login to Rackspace Cloud dashboard, with API, we can fetch the data as JSON response. We can create a small web app to convert this JSON data to human readable format, for reading privately.

Rackspace Load Balancer GET Response API

So we need to read the official documents first :

At the time writing this guide, this the current version. You must ensure the correct version. From the documentations we can see that we will need the account ID :

Here is the full documentation only for GET request :

We can fetch data by appending query in this way after the common part :

This can give us data of the changes since 2014-08-30.

Working With Rackspace Load Balancer GET Response API

Actually we should first follow the newer guide for Authentication part :

Otherwise we will get a 401 response :

The tool is practically a visual way of using cURL :

So we can send a request in this fashion :

Obviously there is documentation for this client, but for cURL :

replacing the arbitrary numbers and letters and using the proper format, we can GET a response in JSON :

For this website the HTTPS redirection is set to true. In this way, we can fetch :

Without really creating an application, thus we can check whats going on.