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Please see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337485

What is it that makes the web documentation atrocious in your view? As for man pages, HTTPie has been shipping them since v3.2 [1]. Try `man http` or `http --manual`. [1] https://h…

HTTPie creator here. Just a clarification: HTTPie is still under the same management, and the CLI doesn’t have any telemetry. Little Snitch is probably warning you about requests t…

Thanks!

Gotcha. Would you mind checking if you happen to have PyOpenSSL installed inside the Python environment HTTPie runs from?

I don’t know when you last tested the start-up time, but we significantly improved it in HTTPie CLI 3.0 [0]. Now it’s still slower by ~0.1s. $ time http --version 3.2.2 real 0m0.11…

Whoever posted it thought otherwise.

Are you the @prmoustache on GitHub with zero public repos?

> Why is the license for this GUI tool so different than the license for their command line tool? The source isn’t even in this repository. The desktop app is not ready to be open-…

As the first paragraph in the README says, we use the GitHub repo to host releases and issues.

We have a PoC where the runtime is implemented in Python and the Electron and web apps use it through https://pyodide.org/ . Still exploring but looks surprisingly viable.

We started httpie/desktop as a separate codebase but are working on unifying it with httpie/cli and our cloud to avoid multiple implementations by extracting a shared runtime that …

> I think the issue is the posturing as open source, having a github repo with no code just to attract devs and look open source-y As the first paragraph in the README says, we use…

Yes, an Electron app is worse than a native app. An Electron app is also infinitely better then no app. It's a trade-off. Without Electron and the likes, a fraction of the apps tha…

You probably don't need all of them. But we've created HTTPie Desktop based on the feedback of HTTPie CLI users over the past decade who wanted to have the same comfort on the desk…

Hi Daan, >> not open-source yet > Can you be more clear? Is the Desktop app going to be open-source in the future? If so, what license? Yes, but have no ETA or license choice yet. …

> You gave this exact same answer to me in your Discord a year ago. If nothing sketchy is going on why not just open source the thing? We appreciate your interest, but we never gav…

It’s a good idea — we’ll look into making it as simple as in HTTPie CLI. Thanks for the feedback.

That’s a good point. I’ve now updated the website template not to show the image with the slogan on this page. Thanks for the feedback.

We show the request/response in two separate panes, each with a menu offering Copy and Download actions. So it’s possible; it’s just a matter of multiple clicks. The desktop app al…

> There seems to be lack of a single word in English to describe this except the long phrase above. Anyone has good suggestion? If you mean the request and response message pair, w…

As the first paragraph in the README says, we use the GitHub repo to host releases and issues. (It’s not open-source yet as we first want to get the product, architecture, and code…

> closed source (despite their website proudly claiming "Open source") HTTPie CLI has been open-source for a decade. HTTPie Desktop has yet to be open-sourced. We first want to get…