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"HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more." https://github.com/ht

by jabr 2y ago

"HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more." https://github.com/httpie/cli https://github.com/httpie/cli

alt187 2y ago
I'll consider HTTPie when they make man pages I can look at in my CLI. This web "documentation" is atrocious.
- jkbr 2y ago
  What is it that makes the web documentation atrocious in your view? As for man pages, HTTPie has been shipping them since v3.2 [1]. Try `man http` or `http --manual`. [1] https://httpie.io/blog/httpie-3.2.0#man-pages https://httpie.io/blog/httpie-3.2.0#man-pages
mixmastamyk 2y ago
I preferred this for years but beware of new management, telemetry and little mention of it. This is from the desktop app but I've seen Little/Open Snitch warn about the CLI as well: https://github.com/httpie/desktop/issues/176 https://github.com/httpie/desktop/issues/176
- jkbr 2y ago
  HTTPie creator here. Just a clarification: HTTPie is still under the same management, and the CLI doesn’t have any telemetry. Little Snitch is probably warning you about requests to packages.httpie.io/latest.json [0]. That is done to let you know when a new version becomes available. It’s a static file hosted through GitHub pages [1] without any tracking. However, there’s currently a bug [2] that prevents the response from getting cached so that the request fires frequently for some users. It’s already fixed in a PR [3] and will be part of the upcoming release. [0] https://github.com/httpie/cli/blob/master/httpie/internal/update_warnings.py#L16 https://github.com/httpie/cli/blob/master/httpie/internal/up... [1] https://github.com/httpie/packages.httpie.io/blob/master/latest.json https://github.com/httpie/packages.httpie.io/blob/master/lat... [2] https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1527 https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1527 [3] https://github.com/httpie/cli/pull/1531 https://github.com/httpie/cli/pull/1531
  - mixmastamyk 2y ago
    Good to know, however updates are a job for my package manager. Imagine dig or awk phoning home for updates? I could see a flag to ask for it specifically.
xwowsersx 2y ago
This is what I've been using for a while now as well. I wasn't aware of the telemetry in the CLI, as mentioned in another reply. That's something I'll need to look into.
- jkbr 2y ago
  Please see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337485

by jabr 2y ago

"HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more." https://github.com/httpie/cli https://github.com/httpie/cli

alt187 2y ago

I'll consider HTTPie when they make man pages I can look at in my CLI. This web "documentation" is atrocious.

jkbr 2y ago
What is it that makes the web documentation atrocious in your view? As for man pages, HTTPie has been shipping them since v3.2 [1]. Try `man http` or `http --manual`. [1] https://httpie.io/blog/httpie-3.2.0#man-pages https://httpie.io/blog/httpie-3.2.0#man-pages

mixmastamyk 2y ago

I preferred this for years but beware of new management, telemetry and little mention of it. This is from the desktop app but I've seen Little/Open Snitch warn about the CLI as well: https://github.com/httpie/desktop/issues/176 https://github.com/httpie/desktop/issues/176

jkbr 2y ago
HTTPie creator here. Just a clarification: HTTPie is still under the same management, and the CLI doesn’t have any telemetry. Little Snitch is probably warning you about requests to packages.httpie.io/latest.json [0]. That is done to let you know when a new version becomes available. It’s a static file hosted through GitHub pages [1] without any tracking. However, there’s currently a bug [2] that prevents the response from getting cached so that the request fires frequently for some users. It’s already fixed in a PR [3] and will be part of the upcoming release. [0] https://github.com/httpie/cli/blob/master/httpie/internal/update_warnings.py#L16 https://github.com/httpie/cli/blob/master/httpie/internal/up... [1] https://github.com/httpie/packages.httpie.io/blob/master/latest.json https://github.com/httpie/packages.httpie.io/blob/master/lat... [2] https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1527 https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1527 [3] https://github.com/httpie/cli/pull/1531 https://github.com/httpie/cli/pull/1531
- mixmastamyk 2y ago
  Good to know, however updates are a job for my package manager. Imagine dig or awk phoning home for updates? I could see a flag to ask for it specifically.

xwowsersx 2y ago

This is what I've been using for a while now as well. I wasn't aware of the telemetry in the CLI, as mentioned in another reply. That's something I'll need to look into.

jkbr 2y ago
Please see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337485