HTTPie: A cURL-like tool for humans

Post by espeed » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 12:34 AM UTC

slurgfest wrote: post #44

javajosh wrote: post #38

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Gosh, what a horrible comment! The simple fact is that curl and wget's interfaces are bad, and everyone who learns to use them spends that 10 minutes. And then, if you're like me, respends that 10 minutes when I need to do something fancy again. If a new tool were to save 5 minutes (which this one does), that's 5 minutes saved on every use, which is probably a total of a few hours for me personally, and spread over t…

All the competing tools are not "for humans." Who are they for, then? If you don't see the negativity in that sales pitch (and your own complaining about other people's creations, which were also the products of hard work) then I don't think you are being honest with yourself. If this tool actually didn't require me to go to a man page and read lots of flags (.... exactly like every other tool) then I might be more e…

  http POST http://localhost:3000/person/create name="James"

Post by suresk » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 2:21 AM UTC

akvlad wrote: post #10

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.

Post by rmccue » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 2:58 AM UTC

manuletroll wrote: post #57

TylerE wrote: post #45

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That's true, but it's no better there, either. Here's some sample curl client code in PHP. $c = curl_init("https://someurl/some/api"); $msg = /* some data here */ $opts = array( CURLOPT_POST=>TRUE, CURLOPT_USERPWD=>" ", CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER=>array("Content-type: application/json"), CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS=>$msg, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER=>FALSE, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER=>TRUE ); curl_setopt_array($c, $opts); $d = curl_exec($c);…

On the other hand I guess you could probably write a nice library that uses curl under the hood, here it's just a case of ugly design.

Post by gvalkov » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 11:30 AM UTC

ww520 wrote: post #76

This is a good tool. I wish there's an editor-integrated interactive http tool. OT: Is there an Emacs package that can do interactive invocation of http? Like having a text buffer to hold all the urls. Hitting Ctrl-E on a url to invoke it, and display the http response headers and result on separate buffers.

Post by masto » Thu, Jul 19, 2012, 12:51 PM UTC

  #!/bin/sh
  
  resource="$1"
  shift
  
  declare -a post
  while [ "$1" ]; do
      post=("${post[@]}" "-F" "$1")
      shift
  done
  
  if [ -z "${API_BASE:=}" ]; then
      API_BASE=http://localhost:3000/api/v1/
      echo "No API_BASE set.  Using $API_BASE."
  fi
  
  verbose=""
  [ -n "$API_VERBOSE" ] && verbose="-v"
  
  if [ -z "${API_COOKIES:=}" ]; then
      cookies=~/.api.cookies
  else
      cookies="$API_COOKIES"
  fi
  
  curl -0 -k -s -S $verbose -b "$cookies" -c "$cookies" -X POST "${post[@]}" "${API_BASE}${resource}"