Re:HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client
by fanf2 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @08:01AM
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I have been using curl for command line http stuff for years and years. I tried out HTTPie a few months ago for testing a json-flavoured API and I found it is amazing, it is so much less awkward than piping curl into jq and struggling with curl’s POST body options
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Re:HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client
by dkersten on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:48AM
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I'm in the same boat. Every time I have had to use curl over the past ~15 years I've had to look up how to do the few basic things I need to do. With HTTPie, its easy enough that I haven't needed to look anything up after the first two or three times.
Sure, cURL can do it and if I used it frequently enough, I guess I'd remember how to use it without having to look it up every time, but for my basic and infrequent use, HTTPie is more pleasant to me and I can remember how to use it.
Re:HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client
by laurent123456 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @06:03PM
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I'm not particularly good at memorising shell commands, but curl always felt straightforward. I use it for all kind of requests and rarely need to look up the parameters.