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Show HN: HTTPLang – a scripting language for making HTTP requests
- harel 11y agoJust a side note, you pushed pyc files into the repo. .gitignore would be useful there. Otherwise, I don't really see what's wrong or "hard" with requests and how is that better, could you elaborate on that point?
- JimDabell 11y agoI thought the same thing. The README says: > I find the process to be stupidly complicated, and handling cookies is a nightmare. However this is about as straightforward as it can get with Requests. This is the HTTPLang example: set URL http://somesite.com set POSTDATA username=myUsername,password=myPassword is this do POST /login set COOKIE $TMPCOOKIE do GET /usercp Here is the equivalent in Python using Requests: import requests url = "http://example.com" post_data = { "username": "myUsername", "password": "myPassword is this" } response = requests.post(url + "/login", data=post_data) cookies = response.cookies requests.get(url + "/usercp", cookies=cookies) Where's the stupidly complicated nightmare? The only complicated things I see above are in the HTTPLang version: a variable called "URL" that isn't actually the URL that is being requested, and I guessed at how the cookie functionality worked because it's not at all obvious – I'm assuming that `set COOKIE $TMPCOOKIE` gets the cookie from the previous request and sets it for the subsequent requests.
- joined 11y agoI don't see the improvement over something like HTTPie (https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie).
- avinassh 11y agoOP, have you looked into Robo Browser? I think it does same thing as your project https://github.com/jmcarp/robobrowser https://github.com/jmcarp/robobrowser
- santiagobasulto 11y agoI like DSLs. Good work. Of course, there will be a lot of things to improve, but kudos on the idea and the execution.