https://github.com/dolph/httpcli

Simple command line HTTP client (compared to cURL).
https://github.com/dolph/httpcli

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Simple command line HTTP client (compared to cURL).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dolph/httpcli
• Owner: dolph
• Created: 2012-05-30T19:33:25.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-05-12T13:13:25.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T19:09:58.293Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: curl, http, json
• Language: Python
• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst

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httpcli

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Just another command line HTTP client (in the spirit of cURL).

Example Usage

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HTTP verbs are specified as a positional argument, followed by the URL to be

acted on. The goal is to reflect the feel of a standard HTTP header. For

example::

    $ http get http://localhost/

To provide a request body (e.g. for a POST or PUT), use the third positional

argument::

    $ http post http://localhost/documents '{"json": "document"}' --content-type="application/json"

Note the arbitrary request header being specified at the end as a normal CLI

option. Any such trailing CLI options will be passed as request headers::

    $ http get http://localhost/ --x-forwarded-for=10.0.0.50

This would be translated as `X-Forwarded-For: 10.0.0.50` in the subsequent HTTP

request. To illustrate this, we can enable verbose output::

    $ http get http://localhost/ --x-forwarded-for=10.0.0.50

    GET http://localhost/

    X-Forwarded-For: 10.0.0.50

    200 OK

    Status: 200

    Content-Length: 396

    Content-Location: http://localhost/

    Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 19:26:03 GMT

    Content-Type: application/json

    {

      "documents": [

        {

          "id": "c1be0fde3c0f4d27be15e1e3812cfd65b58325c3",

          "value": "a"

        },

        {

          "id": "67dc85dceacd3734ae53f1a69f56785dfe4c4c71",

          "value": "b"

        }

      ]

    }

Built-In Help

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Example help output::

    $ http --help

    usage: http [-h] [-t] method url [body] ...

    Python HTTP CLI Client

    positional arguments:

      method       HTTP method to use (OPTIONS, GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE,

                   TRACE, CONNECT)

      url          URL to work with

      body         Request body

      headers      Additional request headers (keyword=value)

    optional arguments:

      -h, --help   show this help message and exit

      -t, --terse  Only show the response body