Sample HTTP requests using vscode rest-client extension

vscode-rest-client-samples.http

# Sample HTTP requests using vscode rest-client extension
# Lines with ### serves as a marker for the extension to insert
# links to send requests

### A simple GET Request
# Get list of sites supported by stackexchange APIs
GET https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/sites

### Get list of tags by site
GET https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags?site=stackoverflow

### Get details of a particular tag
# Query parameters specified one per line.
GET https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/vscode-extensions/info
    ?site=stackoverflow

### Name the request (using @name) and refer to it in a different request
# @name tagsearch
GET https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags?site=askubuntu

### Access values from a request or response in another request
# The general syntax is
# <request-name>.<request|response>.<body|headers>.<path>
# For JSON response, JSONPath syntax (https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/)
# is used.
GET https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/tags/{{tagsearch.response.body.$.items[0].name}}/info?site=askubuntu
#Authorization: Basic base64-user-password

### Supports different authentication options
# Body can be specified separately from the request
POST  https://example.com/posts
Authorization: Basic username:password

{
    "id": 1,
    "title": "My awesome post",
    "timestamp": 1504932105
}


### Another example showing POST request, this
# time with a file level variable
@test_server = dummy.restapiexample.com
POST http://{{test_server}}/api/v1/create
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "name":"Joe",
    "salary":"123456789",
    "age":"23",
}