cURL to add native JSON support

• libcurl

  300 34,221 9.9 C

  A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

  

The --jp (json part) command line option, described at https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/JSON, has "anti-pattern" written all over it to me. Why introduce some specific, curl-only wonky-ish version of JSON? Is this any easier to remember than normal JSON? I mean, right now, I use cURL all the time with JSON posts, just doing something like

-d '{ "foo": "bar", "zed": "yow" }'

The proposed --jp flag seems worse to me in every way.

(Note I do like the --json as just syntactic sugar for -H "Accept: application/json" -d )

• ht

  39 4,753 9.0 Rust

  Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

I have recently been trying a port of HTTPie in Rust, xh [0] (which is needlessly hard to find in a websearch). I am a Python guy, but love having single executable tools.

[0] https://github.com/ducaale/xh

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• curlie

  3 2,666 4.0 Go

  The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.

Check out curlie[0] which is really great and already does this. It's essentially a wrapper for curl with JSON support.

[ 0 ] https://github.com/rs/curlie

• hurl

  42 10,994 9.9 Rust

  Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

  

Under the hood, we use libcurl and a Rust binding. The HTTP engine is curl because curl is awesome!

[1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

• httpie

  116 31,929 6.6 Python

  🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)

  

Happy to hear about xh, thanks for mentioning it. I recently ran into a problem where HTTPie didn't support HTTP/2, so I had to fall back to cURL. The ticket for HTTP/2 in HTTPie is still open https://github.com/httpie/httpie/issues/692

Happy to see that xh supports HTTP/2 out of the box.

• hurl

  1 151 0.0 C++

  http(s)+h2 server load tester (by Edgio)

  

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