Real HTTP from the command line is 'telnet localhost 80'.
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#42This is a great resource. We use curl for sample API calls in our docs (developers.box.com/docs) because it's ubiquitous, but we've come to learn over time that knowledge of how to use curl is not ubiquitous.
Thanks for making this!
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#43Curl is great to have, but remembering all the options flags is a pain. Nowadays I use:
Chrome: "Postman" extension
Firefox: "REST Client" addon
...both great utilities for creating and saving any HTTP request you need.
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#44And if you prefer Ruby, try out htty: https://github.com/htty/htty
recommended, i use it to test all my REST apps, the project needs a breathe of fresh air and get moving with its feature roadmap.
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#45Why do people like cURL? I've regularly found it to have stupid defaults compared to wget. Is it because it's default on Mac and wget isn't?
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#46I never learnt cURL, or for that matter missed many of command-line tools because of the laziness to read boring long man pages. This is a perfect example of how a man page should be. All the options explained one by one with simple examples! It took me hardly 5 minutes, now I feel confident in using cURL for my next use.
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#47I'm sure there must be other sites documenting this too, but that's a very well written and prioritized bit of documentation - nicely done. Your echo service is pretty nifty too.
It is. One thing I just noticed though, the echo service indicates that docs are available at http://httpkit.com/echo but that URI is a 404.
Good catch -- need to get that page up :) Built echo primarily to help me test wiretap so it hasn't gotten much documentation love. Will get that up this weekend.
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#48The site does not work on the iPhone at all if you want to zoom in to read the text. If you start to touch and scroll the menu that was hidden away on the left decides to rear its ugly head and makes the site completely unreadable.
I'm pretty frustrated with sites that don't just have a basic two column layout. Is this a template theme? Otherwise why would you waste so much time on a left column that reflows and messes up the browser experience? Or better yet why not test this on an actual mobile browser?
I am not trying to harp on this site or the author specifically because there are certainly other offenders. This site though is quite annoying because once you finally think yougot that stupid menu out of the way, BOOM it pops right back an ruins the site again.
This is both a rant and a notice to the author since most people probably got too fed up to tell him about this problem.
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#49Why do people like cURL? I've regularly found it to have stupid defaults compared to wget. Is it because it's default on Mac and wget isn't?
As I tend to use in very simple situations, I happen to like curl's default use of stdout. Not a very compelling reason, I know.
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#50If you're on windows and don't feel like using the commandline you can click around in Fiddler to achieve similar things. The help is much shorter http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler/help/composer.asp I wasn't able to change the Host header successfully, though. A workaround is needed: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/httpfidd...
> If you're on windows and don't feel like using the commandline
Just install gow ( https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow ) and you'll be able to run all of those examples as intended. The command line becomes very pleasant on Windows after that one little install. It's very lightweight and well designed.