Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the terminal

Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @07:21PM (#31333936)

Sure, if you've got muscle memory for all the flags (plus it lets you reason about all the other programs that pipe stuff to curl). I personally find myself using httpie [1] at least as much.

1: https://httpie.io/

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Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by ratorx on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:30PM (#31334437)

I think curlie is the middle ground and the best (IMO) in the space. A nicer CLI for interactive use and can use and output curl flags for scripting.

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Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by jicea on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:51AM (#31335956)

As a maintainer, I feel obligated to mention Hurl [1], a tool for testing HTTP with plain text and curl. It’s a wrapper around libcurl, in a single binary, with syntactic sugar for asserts. You can use it also like curl to give you an HTTP output.

[1] https://hurl.dev

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Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by hassy on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:26AM (#31337279)

I haven’t come across Hurl before. It looks cool!

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