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HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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Re: HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by alayne »

I've been using HTTPie a lot more recently. It really takes the tedium out of using curl and I can produce color coded output for people. However, I am still finding myself in situations where I can't figure out how to induce the correct request. In other words, the user friendliness of being able to do things like construct JSON from parameters is great until it isn't.

Is there anything similar for GUI users? The standalone application form of Postman is popular with some coworkers for general HTTP work as is Fiddler on Windows.

Re: HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by rdtsc »

I keep switching between curl + jq vs httpie. Lately I've been using mostly httpie. It is a great tool. One of my favorite things is it builds json objects (say for 'put' and 'post' for example) using command line arguments. So can have:

    $ http put url key1=val1 key2=val2
If one of the fields is a larger nested object can use :=

    $ http put url key1=simpleval1 key2:='{literaljson...}'

Re: HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by dordoka »

alayne wrote: post #23

I've been using HTTPie a lot more recently. It really takes the tedium out of using curl and I can produce color coded output for people. However, I am still finding myself in situations where I can't figure out how to induce the correct request. In other words, the user friendliness of being able to do things like construct JSON from parameters is great until it isn't. Is there anything similar for GUI users? The st…

If you are on OS X, you should try Paw [0]. It's like Postman but with native GUI and lots of options. I use it everyday.

[0] https://luckymarmot.com/paw

Re: HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by sh4nks »

theaustinseven wrote: post #3

I really like this because by default it gives all of the http headers and makes everything look really nice. Curl still has its place, and I wouldn't dream of replacing it, but I would definitely use this as a sort of command line shortcut. Cool project.

For me it has been incredibly useful for quickly testing some REST APIs.

Re: HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by peterwwillis »

scrollaway wrote: post #12
peterwwillis wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rephrase: If this was implemented with libcurl and bundled with cURL it would no longer need to exist as a separate project because cURL would develop and support it. Does that make more sense?

I think I understand what you're saying, but all it would be is a change of ownership/packaging. httpie is only an interface to lower level libraries which already exist (requests and therefore urllib3). Whether it's an interface to requests or to libcurl matters fairly little. It'd be quite a drag if it were to libcurl in fact because syntax highlighting would be a lot harder, for example.

"all it would be" is a gigantic wealth of new functionality that requests/urllib3 does not have (compare libcurl and urllib3 features), along with greater support, developer base, test coverage, user base, and lower tco. httpie gains a wealth of advantages and cURL gets syntax highlighting. It's hard to overstate how advantageous to httpie it would be.

Re: HTTPie: a CLI, cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by toomuchtodo »

dordoka wrote: post #27
alayne wrote: post #23

I've been using HTTPie a lot more recently. It really takes the tedium out of using curl and I can produce color coded output for people. However, I am still finding myself in situations where I can't figure out how to induce the correct request. In other words, the user friendliness of being able to do things like construct JSON from parameters is great until it isn't. Is there anything similar for GUI users? The st…

If you are on OS X, you should try Paw [0]. It's like Postman but with native GUI and lots of options. I use it everyday. [0] https://luckymarmot.com/paw

+1 for Paw!
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