Using custom REST endpoint URLs for API Gateway

Question

The pet example for API Management API states
http://petstore.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/petstore/pets
as the url.

1. Can I have my own domain's URL not hosted on AWS at say, my-animals.com/pets.py ?
2. My response is a **text **outputting JSON but not sending a Content-Type: application/json header since this was created before application/json got officially registered. Is this going to be an issue ?

Answer

Hi,

On 2., see  https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-the-correct-content-type-for-json-request-header-mime-type-explained/

```
Without explicitly declaring the content type of a resource, the client may 
attempt to automatically detect the type, but the result may not be accurate. 
This is why it's important to explicitly declare it.
```

On 2., you can manage the domain name by another DNS provider to have the one that you exactly want as long as you do proper remapping via CNAMES

See https://support.dnsimple.com/articles/differences-between-a-cname-alias-url/
and 
https://ie.godaddy.com/help/edit-a-cname-record-19237 (for Godaddy but similar for other DNS providers)

Using custom REST endpoint URLs for API Gateway

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