curl is obviously fantastic but for more complex ad-hoc requests I usually prefer httpie.
You can pry
wgetfrom my cold, dead hands.More coming soon. Or not. I don’t owe you shit.
As a daily curl user, this made me interested in trying out postman.
There are less bloated alternatives I prefer. Like Bruno, which is easy/easier to version control.
Thanks for mentioning Bruno! It looks awesome. I haven’t tried it out, but I’m going to give it a shot today.
It will upload your credentials to the cLoUd and ask you for payment to do basic things. Completely enshittified.
That was a fun read! I don’t even know what Postman is but I do like curl :P
Be glad you don’t know what Postman is.
The only reason I bother is because some PMs want to use it.
That’s great. I like a GUI. I also do not like whatever postman is. So I have to suffer until I find something that works for me
Httpie desktop? Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/?
Bruno Looks interesting. I think the last time I read about it it was very new, I might need to give it another try. I hope it will not end up like postman or insomnia.
The first thing I see when opening the httpie app website is a “we now have ai” pop-up. So probably not that one.
This is such a weird article. Electron is not for making http requests, it’s for rendering web pages. Nothing within curl can render web pages. I’m not saying you should be using electron necessarily, but this is just so obviously wrong, what is the author thinking?
And (almost) any programming language has a built-in primitive for making http requests (possibly even using libcurl internally), why would I switch to a command line call if I can just do the http call directly with that primitive?
I think it’s a jab at Postman, which is essentially curl with a GUI.
Generally not a big fan of this type of writing especially when it’s so wrong.
I’m an old software dev who grew up with curl but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone new. It’s extremely dated UX that takes a long time to figure all of the quirks out. You will fail thousand times over and is a http client CLI really worth days of your time learning?
Libcurl itself is brilliant but there are much better front ends for it like hurl or alternatives like httpie - use those instead.
Yes it is worth it, because it is available everywhere, and will still be around in 15 years. Learn it once, use it “forever”, everywhere. It’s the same with learning to use sed, awk, etc. They’ve been around for 50 years and will most likely be for another 50.
Same here, though last time I used a nice frontend was in 2010s, it stopped being developed like all these smaller projects finally end up, and I’m back to using curl. Perhaps it’s time to try again, httpie has been around for a while so maybe it’s here to stay
Command line escaping is an annoying son of a bitch and different rules apply depending if you’re using bash, cmd, powershell.
That’s why you shouldn’t use cmd or powershell. That and the fact that you’d have to install W*nd*ws in order to use them.
Edit: Too bad that all the downvoters didn’t leave a comment. Now I’ll never know if it was M*cr*s*ft employees on their anual works outing, or if you’re mad because I dared to use the W-word :D
String escaping sucks in bash and other posix-style shells too, though.
I hate windows/microsoft as much as anyone and i hate to say this but powershell isn’t that bad and can be installed on Linux and MacOS
Thanks, I didn’t know that. And now I wish I could forget it again.
