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htty is the HTTP TTY, a console application for interacting with web servers.
https://htty.github.io/htty/
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htty is the HTTP TTY, a console application for interacting with web servers.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://htty.github.io/htty/
- Owner: htty
- License: other
- Created: 2010-09-06T15:23:37.000Z (over 14 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2021-01-03T02:19:06.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-29T10:45:09.854Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: api-consumer, command-line-app, developer-tools, http, rest, ruby, web
- Language: Ruby
- Homepage: http://htty.github.io
- Size: 1.66 MB
- Stars: 1,746
- Watchers: 30
- Forks: 65
- Open Issues: 34
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.markdown
- Changelog: History.markdown
- License: License.markdown
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[htty](http://htty.github.io) is a console application for interacting with web servers. It’s a fun way to explore web APIs and to learn the ins and outs of HTTP.
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See what’s changed lately by reading the [project history](http://github.com/htty/htty/blob/master/History.markdown).
Installation
============
It couldn’t be much easier.
$ gem install htty
You’ll need Ruby and RubyGems. It’s known to work well under OS X against Ruby v1.8.7, v1.9.2, v1.9.3, v2.0, v2.1, and v2.2.
Features
========
* Intuitive, Tab-completed commands and command aliases
* Support for familiar HTTP methods _GET_, _POST_, _PUT_, and _DELETE_, as well as _PATCH_, _HEAD_, _OPTIONS_ and _TRACE_
* Support for HTTP Secure connections and HTTP Basic Authentication
* Automatic URL-encoding of userinfo, paths, query-string parameters, and page fragments
* Transcripts, both verbose and summary
* Scripting via _stdin_
* Dead-simple cookie handling and redirect following
* Built-in help
The things you can do with _htty_ are:
* **Build a request** — you can tweak the address, headers, cookies, and body at will
* **Send the request to the server** — after the request is sent, it remains unchanged in your session history
* **Inspect the server’s response** — you can look at the status, headers, cookies, and body in various ways
* **Review history** — a normal and a verbose transcript of your session are available at all times (destroyed when you quit _htty_)
* **Reuse previous requests** — you can refer to prior requests and copy them
Examples
========
Here are a few annotated _htty_ session transcripts to get you started (terminal screenshots shown here are also available in [textual form](http://github.com/htty/htty/blob/master/examples.markdown)).
Querying a web service
----------------------
This simple example shows how to explore a read-only web service with _htty_.
You can point _htty_ at a complete or partial web URL. If you don’t supply a URL, http://0.0.0.0/ (port 80) will be used. You can vary the protocol scheme, userinfo, host, port, path, query string, and fragment as you wish.
The _htty_ shell prompt shows the address of the current request.
The `get` command is one of seven HTTP request methods supported. A concise summary of the response is shown when you issue a request.
You can follow redirects using the `follow` command. No request is made until you type a request command such as `get` or `post`.
You can tweak segments of the address at will. Here we are navigating the site’s path hierarchy, which you can do with relative as well as absolute pathspecs.
Here we add query-string parameters. Notice that characters that require URL encoding are automatically URL-encoded (unless they are part of a URL-encoded expression).
The `headers-response` and `body-response` commands reveal the details of a response.
There was some cruft in the web service’s response (a horizontal line, a passage reference, verse numbers, a copyright stamp, and line breaks). We eliminate it by using API options provided by the web service we’re talking to.
We do a Julia Child maneuver and use the `address` command to change the entire URL, rather than add individual query-string parameters one by one.
Exit your session at any time by typing `quit` or hitting Ctrl-D.
Working with cookies
--------------------
The next example demonstrates htty’s HTTP Secure support and cookies features, as well as how to review and revisit past requests.
The _https://_ scheme and port 443 imply each other, just as the _http://_ scheme and port 80 imply each other. If you omit the scheme or the port, it will default to the appropriate value.
Notice that when cookies are offered in a response, a bold asterisk (it looks like a cookie) appears in the response summary. The same cookie symbol appears next to the _Set-Cookie_ header when you display response headers.
The `cookies-use` command copies cookies out of the response into the next request. The cookie symbol appears next to the _Cookie_ header when you display request headers.
An abbreviated history is available through the `history` command. Information about requests in the history includes request method, URL, number of headers (and a cookie symbol, if cookies were sent), and the size of the body. Information about responses in the history includes response code, number of headers (and a cookie symbol, if cookies were received), and the size of the body.
Note that history contains only numbered HTTP request and response pairs, not a record of all the commands you enter.
The `reuse` command makes a copy of the headers and body of an earlier request for you to build on.
Understanding complex HTTP conversations at a glance using history
------------------------------------------------------------------
Now we’ll look at htty’s HTTP Basic Authentication support and learn how to display unabbreviated transcripts of _htty_ sessions.
Assume that we have the following Sinatra application listening on Sinatra’s default port, 4567.
``` ruby
require 'sinatra'
get '/all-good' do
[200, [['Set-Cookie', 'foo=bar; baz']], 'Hello World!']
end
put '/huh' do
[404, 'What?']
end
delete '/hurl' do
[500, 'Barf!']
end
post '/submit-novel' do
redirect '/all-good'
end
```
This application expects _GET_ and _POST_ requests and responds in various contrived ways.
When you change the userinfo portion of the address, or the entire address, the appropriate HTTP Basic Authentication header is created for you automatically. Notice that characters that require URL encoding are automatically URL-encoded (unless they are part of a URL-encoded expression).
When userinfo is supplied in a request, a bold mercantile symbol ( _@_ ) appears next to the resulting _Authorization_ header when you display request headers (see below).
Type `body-set` to enter body data, and terminate it by entering two consecutive blank lines, or by hitting Ctrl-D. The body will only be sent for _POST_ and _PUT_ requests. The appropriate _Content-Length_ header is created for you automatically (see below).
Different response codes are rendered with colors that suggest their meaning:
* Response codes between 200 and 299 appear black on green to indicate success
* Response codes between 300 and 399 appear white on blue to indicate redirection
* Response codes between 400 and 499 appear white on red to indicate failure
* Response codes between 500 and 599 appear flashing black on yellow to indicate a server error
As with the abbreviated history demonstrated earlier, verbose history shows a numbered list of requests and the responses they elicited. All information exchanged between client and server is shown.
Getting help
------------
You can learn how to use _htty_ commands from within _htty_.
The `help` command takes an optional argument of the abbreviated or full name of a command.
Contributing
============
Report defects and feature requests on [GitHub Issues](http://github.com/htty/htty/issues).
Your patches are welcome, and you will receive attribution here for good stuff. Fork [the official _htty_ repository](http://github.com/htty/htty "htty’s ‘htty’ repository at GitHub") and send a pull request.
Development
-----------
After cloning the repository, `bin/setup` to install dependencies. Then `rake` to run the tests. You can also `bin/console` to get an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, `bundle exec rake install`. To release a new version, update the version number in _lib/htty/version.rb_, and then `bundle exec rake release`, which will create a Git tag for the version, push Git commits and tags, and push the _.gem_ file to [RubyGems.org](http://rubygems.org).
News and information
====================
Stay in touch with the _htty_ project by following [@get_htty](http://twitter.com/get_htty "get_htty at Twitter") on Twitter.
You can also get help in the [#htty channel on Freenode](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=htty).
Credits
=======
The author, [Nils Jonsson](mailto:[email protected]), owes a debt of inspiration to the [_http-console_](http://github.com/cloudhead/http-console) project.
Thanks to [contributors](http://github.com/htty/htty/contributors "htty contributors at GitHub") (in alphabetical order):
* Dillon Benson ([dibenso](http://github.com/dibenso "dibenso at GitHub"))
* Pascal Borreli ([pborreli](http://github.com/pborreli "pborreli at GitHub"))
* Rob Dawson (ephox-rob/[rojotek](http://github.com/rojotek "rojotek at GitHub"))
* Bo Frederiksen ([bofrede](http://github.com/bofrede "bofrede at GitHub"))
* Johannes Gorset ([jgorset](http://github.com/jgorset "jgorset at GitHub"))
* Alex Gusev ([presskey](http://github.com/presskey "presskey at GitHub"))
* Gabriele Lana ([gabrielelana](http://github.com/gabrielelana "gabrielelana at GitHub"))
* Carson McDonald ([carsonmcdonald](http://github.com/carsonmcdonald "carsonmcdonald at GitHub"))
* Sam Nguyen ([dtjm](http://github.com/dtjm "dtjm at GitHub"))
* Robert Pitts ([rbxbx](http://github.com/rbxbx "rbxbx at GitHub"))
* Matt Sanders ([nextmat](http://github.com/nextmat "nextmat at GitHub"))
* Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt ([pepijnve](http://github.com/pepijnve "pepijnve at GitHub"))
* [vijay-v](http://github.com/vijay-v "vijay-v at GitHub")
License
=======
Released under the [MIT License](http://github.com/htty/htty/blob/master/License.markdown).
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[Gemnasium build status]: https://gemnasium.com/htty/htty.svg
[Inch CI build status]: http://inch-ci.org/github/htty/htty.svg?branch=master
[RubyGems release]: https://badge.fury.io/rb/htty.svg
[Travis-CI-build-status]: http://travis-ci.org/htty/htty "Travis CI build status for htty"
[Code-Climate-report]: http://codeclimate.com/github/htty/htty "Code Climate report for htty"
[Gemnasium-build-status]: http://gemnasium.com/htty/htty "Gemnasium build status for htty"
[Inch-CI-build-status]: http://inch-ci.org/github/htty/htty "Inch CI build status for htty"
[RubyGems-release]: http://rubygems.org/gems/htty "RubyGems release of htty"