Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences • Hacker News Board

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

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Post by krakensden » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

Another solution: https://github.com/xthexder/httptee

A daemon that sends to two backends, and diffs the results.

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

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Post by pixelbeat » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 3:38 PM UTC

Personally I use these from the command line:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/urldiff http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/idiff

See also mergely which supports diffing URLs: http://pixelbeat/programming/diffs/#mergely

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

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Post by dgulino » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

jalfresi wrote: post #10

jalfresi wrote: post #6

For command-line junkies: diff https://httpbin.org/get ) https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1 )

Actually this is closer still to the output. Requires colordiff: diff -u https://httpbin.org/get ) https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1 ) | colordiff

you can leave off the pipe: colordiff -u https://httpbin.org/get) https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1)

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

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Post by SimeVidas » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

Use cases?

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

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Post by gregingelmo » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 4:51 PM UTC

Use Vim, it's the best diff tool by a long shot. Syntax highlighting, side-by-side diffs, and code folding (when large contiguous sections are equal)

vimdiff https://httpbin.org/get") https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1")

It takes some getting used to but once you go vimdiff you'll never go back.

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

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Post by gdc » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 5:35 PM UTC

Doesn't seem to work at all in IE11 / RTM Win10.