HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by jkbr » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 3:38 PM UTC

HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans
github.com

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by pkulak » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:20 PM UTC

This is a great idea. Sometimes when something is not working the last thing I want to do is poor through the curl man page before I can even get started figuring it out.

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by jameswyse » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

This is fantastic! Thank you!

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by snissn » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:31 PM UTC

http://xkcd.com/927/

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by benatkin » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:39 PM UTC

It looks great! I see no reason to slight cURL, though. Its CLI was intended for humans.

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by gdg92989 » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

snissn wrote: post #4

http://xkcd.com/927/

yeah, couldn't agree more

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by kstenerud » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

snissn wrote: post #4

http://xkcd.com/927/

Not applicable. This is not a new standard; merely a new tool.

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by kodeninja » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:50 PM UTC

Another alternative, in Ruby, is HTTY - https://github.com/htty/htty

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by jparise » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:52 PM UTC

I'd also recommend Curlish (http://packages.python.org/curlish/). It performs nice JSON highlighting and also handles OAuth 2.0 token authentication.

It simply wraps curl(1), so all of the familiar arguments and recipes continue to work just fine, as well.

Re: HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

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Post by akvlad » Wed, Jul 18, 2012, 4:59 PM UTC

I was looking for something like this a while back and found a useful firefox plugin called Poster (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/poster/). It's useful for testing a RESTful api without creating any front-end code to handle the requests. Or anything you can do with cURL just simpler.