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Re:A curl cheat sheet by sohkamyung on Thursday September 17, 2015 @11:10PM (#10237311)
Maybe I'm wrong, but httpie appears to be targetting http transactions only, while curl supports multiple protocols (ftp, etc.).

curl's syntax is also baked into various Web Browser network debuggers. Both Chrome and Firefox's network transactions display have a "output to curl" option to allow you to recreate the network transaction exactly.

Edit: on Firefox, the option is "Copy as curl"

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Re:A curl cheat sheet by wldcordeiro on Friday September 18, 2015 @01:04AM (#10237555)
That is true, curl has some additional protocol features and then of course it being a standard part of most *nix OSes makes it easy to understand why Chrome and Firefox both have the copy as curl option. I still use curl regularly but for any pure http(s) stuff I use httpie because of its improved user experience.
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