Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
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Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#2Nice.
It's a step up from httpie, which is nice to craft requests, but not to check for security.
Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#3Bookmarked, looks useful. Kudos!
Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#4Looks really, really useful. Bookmarked, cloned, and shared with my team!
Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#5I suggest a convenient way to set cookie or auth headers. A lot of endpoints are behind authentication. The --req-headers flag is feasible, but there should be a shortcut flag just for authentication headers. Maybe --cookie and --auth ?
Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#6Thanks. All suggestions/PR are welcome.
Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#7I suggest a convenient way to set cookie or auth headers. A lot of endpoints are behind authentication. The --req-headers flag is feasible, but there should be a shortcut flag just for authentication headers. Maybe --cookie and --auth ?
ok, i'll add issue for this, thx.
Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#8One comment: put the list of package dependencies before the install, or check for their packages during setup.sh
Make life a little easier for the user ;)
Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#9Not to rain on your parade with nicely formatted code like hardly any shell projects do, but what I would have expected for such a tool that I just want to use:
wget https://github/.../releases/.../stable/htrace.sh
Only gave it a quick look and saw the other comment asking for dependencies. if there are some, why not list them in the README.
I'm really not against installers, but falls under the "small handy tool" category and not "I will spend time automating the install, either it works or it doesn't"
Re: Show HN: My shell script for HTTP/HTTPS troubleshooting and profiling
#10Plug for a related tool that I use constantly.
It's called Swiss Army Knife for SMTP, or "SWAKS" for short.
http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/
This tool is one of the best tools I've ever seen. It's well thought out, well designed, and the documentation is very usable.
(Full disclosure: I have no affiliation with the author or the tool.)