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Re:HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client by microcolonel on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:22AM (#21676143)
> I know that it is not that easy, but unix tools do have the problem that often the flags don't make sense on the first glance.

Should you be sending HTTP requests to something without knowing precisely what you're doing? httpie just sorta assumes from your arguments what you're trying to do, and for me it has often been wrong. Probably works OK if you have a mostly read-only API.

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Re:HTTPie – A user-friendly CLI HTTP client by bpfrh on Monday December 02, 2019 @08:15PM (#21689009)
I don't send random things, I either look up curl if I need to script something or I just use postman.

EDIT: Depends, most of the time I use standard JSON Rest apis, there is not really that much to misassume I think.

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