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Re: Hurl

#11

Post by f00 » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 7:46 AM UTC

Very, very cool.. and I love the name.

That said, I regularly test APIs using actual usernames and passwords via HTTP Basic Auth. It will be a cold day in hell before I toss my credentials in cleartext into a web form. :-)

I really like the syntax-highlighted, pretty-printed JSON output, though. Really handy.

Re: Hurl

#12

Post by tjogin » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 7:57 AM UTC

maelstrom wrote: post #6

This is seriously news? I could write this app in 10 lines of code, or am I missing something important?

I think you meant that you can reproduce a fraction of this app's functionality, and present it in an unattractive way with really bad useability, in ten lines of code. And even then you'd be exaggerating.

Re: Hurl

#13

Post by pvg » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 8:09 AM UTC

texel wrote: post #9

maelstrom wrote: post #6

This is seriously news? I could write this app in 10 lines of code, or am I missing something important?

Yes, perhaps you are. First, watch the video: http://vimeo.com/6238577 Second, realize that this was developed from start to finish in 48 hours, by some not untalented people... they seem to have put a lot of thought into it, and the details really show. Third, saying you could do anything nontrivial in "10 lines of code" reminds me of this guy http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501

First, watch the video?

Doesn't that seem to emphasize the guy's point? It seems like a neat if simplistic little tool and if you have to watch a video to tell how it's something more...

Re: Hurl

#14

Post by oomkiller » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 8:29 AM UTC

I'll stick with HTTP Client for OS X, handles everything I need it for!

Re: Hurl

#15

Post by mikeytown2 » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 8:55 AM UTC

texel wrote: post #9

maelstrom wrote: post #6

This is seriously news? I could write this app in 10 lines of code, or am I missing something important?

Yes, perhaps you are. First, watch the video: http://vimeo.com/6238577 Second, realize that this was developed from start to finish in 48 hours, by some not untalented people... they seem to have put a lot of thought into it, and the details really show. Third, saying you could do anything nontrivial in "10 lines of code" reminds me of this guy http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501

Less then 250 lines of code: http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_http_request/7

Re: Hurl

#16

Post by daveungerer » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 9:10 AM UTC

Love the unicorn puking a rainbow on their 404 error page.

Re: Hurl

#17

Post by mikeytown2 » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 9:14 AM UTC

After doing some tests, it appears that gzip doesn't work.

Re: Hurl

#18

Post by est » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 9:26 AM UTC

Why don't we make something like socket2http_get

    http://example.com/tcp?address=example.com:80&send=GET+/+HTTP/1.1%0D%0AHOST:+example.com%0D%0A%0D%0A

Oh wait... did I just re-invented HTTP 1.1 Connect?

Re: Hurl

#19

Post by brown9-2 » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 12:38 PM UTC

maelstrom wrote: post #6

This is seriously news? I could write this app in 10 lines of code, or am I missing something important?

the ability to link to the responses / output seems like it might be useful for debugging and helping others

Re: Hurl

#20

Post by cousin_it » Sat, Sep 12, 2009, 2:13 PM UTC

Why no way to enter a raw POST body instead of key-value pairs? Could've been seriously useful for some web services.