Twitter Rate Limit json - twitter

Question

I am still relatively new to Twitter development. so this is probably a stupid question.
I am looking at a Twitter API library, and they have rate limit defined in the resource file
<data name="QueryRateLimit" xml:space="preserve">
<value>https://api.twitter.com/1.1/application/rate_limit_status.json</value>
what exactly does https://api.twitter.com/1.1/application/rate_limit_status.json do and what is it used for in the application?
Because if you just open a browser, and copy and past this link, you get authentication error, as expected. But if your request is authenticated, does that mean the json will return a certain set of values map to the rate limit of the session?
All tips and help are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
What

Answer 1

According to the documentation you will get something like this:
{
"rate_limit_context": {
"access_token": "119476949-oYGCs2M5duG5QalbOAK2YUZh8zG3ur7DPYo5qIFN"
},
"resources": {
"help": {
"/help/privacy": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/help/configuration": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/help/tos": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/help/languages": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
}
},
"statuses": {
"/statuses/oembed": {
"remaining": 180,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 180
},
"/statuses/user_timeline": {
"remaining": 180,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 180
},
"/statuses/mentions_timeline": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/statuses/home_timeline": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/statuses/show/:id": {
"remaining": 180,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 180
},
"/statuses/retweets/:id": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
}
},
"users": {
"/users/show": {
"remaining": 180,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 180
},
"/users/search": {
"remaining": 180,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 180
},
"/users/suggestions": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/users/contributors": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/users/suggestions/:slug/members": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/users/suggestions/:slug": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/users/contributees": {
"remaining": 15,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 15
},
"/users/lookup": {
"remaining": 180,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 180
}
},
"search": {
"/search/tweets": {
"remaining": 180,
"reset": 1346439527,
"limit": 180
}
}
}
}