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All request to the API should be made over HTTPS .NOTE: Currently the staging environment does not have SSL certificates setup and needs to be requested over HTTP)for all environments (including staging and live).
Requests made over HTTP will time out and not get a response.
Serialization
The API offers 4 serialization methods to send and retrieve data. The serialization method is selected using the Accept and Content-type HTTP headers. If you cannot specify the content type on the HTTP request, it can be overridden by appending a query string parameter to the URL.
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The API endpoint has a metadata page associated with it at /metadata i.e. httphttps://api.staging.milkbooks.com/metadata
The metadata page provides access to XSDs describing the types, as well as details about the API actions.
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