hurl is a tool for looking at the request being made

Inspired by bat and kurly, hurl is simple HTTP requester.

Usage: ./hurl -u <URL> [option [option]...]

Options:
  -X action
    	specify the HTTP action (e.g. GET, POST, etc) (default "GET")
  -basic string
    	sugar for adding the 'Authorization: Basic $val' header
  -bearer string
    	sugar for adding the 'Authorization: Bearer $val' header
  -body string
    	data as a string for the body of the request
  -form
    	sugar for adding 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  -header param=value
    	param=value headers for the request
  -help
    	display these program options
  -param param=value
    	param=value data for the request
  -pf
    	sugar for -post -form
  -post
    	sugar for setting the HTTP action to POST
  -query
    	append -data-urlencoded's to the target URL as a query string
  -s	shutup
  -save
    	write the output to a similarly named local file; to specify a different filename, simply redirect stdout
  -stdin
    	read the request body from stdin; request will ingore 'param' and 'body'
  -summary
    	after the request is finished, print a brief summary
  -token string
    	sugar for adding the 'Authorization: Token $val' header
  -type string
    	sugar for adding the 'Content-Type: $val' header
  -url string
    	the destination URI

why

Whenever I build HTTP APis, there seems to be a number of utilities that do more than I want or do what I want in ways that are more complex than I would prefer. This is my attempt at a utility that is small, simple, and does things the way I would do them. Where I tend to spend my keystrokes, I've added sugar.

todo

• progress bars
• multipart/form-data (binary data)