messagehub025.md

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Using the Kafka REST API

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The Kafka REST API provides a RESTful interface to a Kafka cluster. You can easily produce and consume messages and complete administration tasks by using the API. For reference documents, see Confluent Platform docs {:new_window}.

If you are using CURL, you can adapt the code examples detailed in the Confluent docs {:new_window} by adding the following line to the command line:

-H "X-Auth-Token: APIKEY"

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