gttp: http for gophers
This program is a minimal clone of https://github.com/httpie/httpie, "A modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era."
The reason for writing my own is that python's 100ms+ startup time was really starting to bug me.
The goal is not to write a full command-line http client, but rather to make a tool that makes it easier to interactively poke at HTTP and JSON services.
Headers, query parameters and form data are all specified on the command line,
using a different separator depending on the type of key-value pair wanted.
Headers use :, query params ==, and form-data uses =. For raw JSON data,
use :=. Raw JSON allows complex types to be sent and also doesn't coerce
booleans and numbers to strings.
By default, the parameters are sent as JSON unless -f (form-data) is passed,
in which case the content-type is set to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
Some examples:
gttp httpbin.org/get Custom-Header:"header value" queryparam==value
gttp -f httpbin.org/post formdata1=value1 formdata2=value2
gttp POST httpbin.org/post jsondata1=1 jsondata2:=2 jsondata3:='[1,2,{"complex":["json", "data"]}]'
gttp -auth="foouser:foopass" httpbin.org/basic-auth/foouser/foopass
This tool certainly isn't finished, but I've switched over to using it for my needs (which are admittedly minimal.)
Pull requests gladly accepted.
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