Making Requests

This chapter describes how to interact with the Mechanical Turk Service, how to authenticate and send requests, and how to understand responses.

This chapter has the following sections:

• Making SOAP Requests

  How to call the service using the SOAP interface.

• Making REST Requests

  How to call the service using the REST interface.

• Request Authentication

  How to use your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to sign your requests, so the service knows who you are.

• Understanding Responses

  How to interpret responses from the service.