echa/gttp

gttp: http command line

gttp: http for gophers

This program is a minimal clone of https://github.com/jkbr/httpie, "A cURL-like tool for humans."

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.