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Discovering Oracle Billing Insight RESTful Services Using a Web Browser

You can access read-only RESTful service resources, such as GET operations, using a Web browser.

To discover RESTful services using a Web browser

1. Start the RESTful Service server domain.
2. Start a new browser using the following URL, and enter a valid user name and password:

   http://hostname:port/rs/rsPostLogin.action

   This action returns a secure token for the session.

3. Edit the same URL with the name of an individual resource, and enter the edited URL in a different window of the same browser.

   For example, the following URL returns an account summary for all accounts that the login user can access:

   http://hostname:port/rs/api/v1/accounts

   http://hostname:port/rs/api/v2/accounts

   http://hostname:port/rs/api/latest/accounts

   The URL response returns link elements that you can use to drill down further. From the drill-down link, you can view all the GET Web services using a browser session.

4. To find response HTML header information, use third-party browser plug-ins to view the HTML header in a separate window.

   The following Web sites provide a toolbar for viewing an HTTP header for Firefox and describe how to add it to your Firefox browser:

   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/

   http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/view-http-headers-of-any-web-page-in-firefox/