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A while back I was trying to craft a curl request and in middle of it i made a mistake and started the command with GET. And it worked! For a moment I thought i

A while back I was trying to craft a curl request and in middle of it i made a mistake and started the command with GET. And it worked! For a moment I thought its a Fish feature. It turns out libwww-perl has commands named like HTTP methods installed in my /usr/bin. So `GET http://foo` http://foo` works. Which is super convenient! Give it a try! edit: There's a high chance its already installed on your machine.

jkbr 10y ago
This tool has a really nice UI by which HTTPie is actually partly inspired. And it also includes `POST': $ echo 'hello=world' | POST httpbin.org/post
xaduha 10y ago
Can also be solved with some aliases to curl alias GET='curl -sk' alias DELETE='curl -sk -X DELETE' alias PUT='curl -sk -X PUT --data-binary @-' alias POST='curl -sk -X POST --data-binary @-' echo "hello" | POST localhost
- xaduha 10y ago
  probably doesn't need that -k flag, I was just using it to test HTTPS server with a self-signed certificate
- ta0967 10y ago
  do not use -X without having read the manual, it can break redirects and other things. from the curl(1) manpage: -X, --request <command> (...) Normally you don't need this option. All sorts of GET, HEAD, POST and PUT requests are rather invoked by using dedicated command line options. This option only changes the actual word used in the HTTP request, it does not alter the way curl behaves. So for example if you want to make a proper HEAD request, using -X HEAD will not suffice. You need to use the -I, --head option. The method string you set with -X will be used for all requests, which if you for example use -L, --location may cause unintended side-effects when curl doesn't change request method according to the HTTP 30x response codes - and similar. PUT is indicated by using -T / --upload-file, POST by -d / --data or any --data-foo option (eg. --data-raw). DELETE is the only HTTP method in the parent list that needs -X to be used.
  - xaduha 10y ago
    The point is to have the ability to pipe to curl, will -T / --upload-file allow that? For now I'm happy with how it worked.
    - ta0967 10y ago
      the manpage is very explicit about that: Use the file name "-" (a single dash) to use stdin instead of a given file. Alternately, the file name "." (a single period) may be specified instead of "-" to use stdin in non-blocking mode to allow reading server output while stdin is being uploaded.

jkbr 10y ago

This tool has a really nice UI by which HTTPie is actually partly inspired. And it also includes `POST': $ echo 'hello=world' | POST httpbin.org/post

xaduha 10y ago

Can also be solved with some aliases to curl alias GET='curl -sk' alias DELETE='curl -sk -X DELETE' alias PUT='curl -sk -X PUT --data-binary @-' alias POST='curl -sk -X POST --data-binary @-' echo "hello" | POST localhost

xaduha 10y ago
probably doesn't need that -k flag, I was just using it to test HTTPS server with a self-signed certificate
ta0967 10y ago
do not use -X without having read the manual, it can break redirects and other things. from the curl(1) manpage: -X, --request <command> (...) Normally you don't need this option. All sorts of GET, HEAD, POST and PUT requests are rather invoked by using dedicated command line options. This option only changes the actual word used in the HTTP request, it does not alter the way curl behaves. So for example if you want to make a proper HEAD request, using -X HEAD will not suffice. You need to use the -I, --head option. The method string you set with -X will be used for all requests, which if you for example use -L, --location may cause unintended side-effects when curl doesn't change request method according to the HTTP 30x response codes - and similar. PUT is indicated by using -T / --upload-file, POST by -d / --data or any --data-foo option (eg. --data-raw). DELETE is the only HTTP method in the parent list that needs -X to be used.
- xaduha 10y ago
  The point is to have the ability to pipe to curl, will -T / --upload-file allow that? For now I'm happy with how it worked.
  - ta0967 10y ago
    the manpage is very explicit about that: Use the file name "-" (a single dash) to use stdin instead of a given file. Alternately, the file name "." (a single period) may be specified instead of "-" to use stdin in non-blocking mode to allow reading server output while stdin is being uploaded.