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Making API requests

Open Fabric APIs follow REST conventions and use standard HTTP verbs and status codes.

Common request headers

HeaderValue
AuthorizationBearer <access_token>
Content-Typeapplication/json (unless an endpoint specifies otherwise)

Response handling

  • Use HTTP status codes to determine success vs error.
  • For error responses, the body may include an error code and message. See Error codes.

Idempotency

For create operations (for example, transactions, refunds, chargebacks), we recommend using an Idempotency-Key so you can safely retry requests. See Idempotency.