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First off, I am really surprised how often this gets re-posted to HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=httpie&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=

by gamedna 10y ago

First off, I am really surprised how often this gets re-posted to HN. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=httpie&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=httpie&sort=byPopularity&prefi... I discovered HTTPie a few years back and it has completely replaced curl/wget during our API development and testing.

zymhan 10y ago
I guess it's still growing in popularity but hasn't hit the inflection point of becoming a standard tool. The concept of an HTTP CLI seems obvious to me in retrospect, but I'm not a web developer, so maybe there's a reason this isn't as useful it would seem at first glance?
- jtmarmon 10y ago
  there is an http cli already. it's included in like every OS ever...it's called curl. httpie is just more user friendly