http-requester

v0.14.5

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Perform HTTP & WS requests like a boss! A command line utility that supports HTTP, HTTPS, Websocket and server creation, featuring a cool interactive shell. Ideal for testing and debugging.

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HTTP Requester

Perform HTTP & WS requests like a boss!

A command line utility that supports HTTP, HTTPS, Websocket and server creation.

It features a cool interactive shell.

Ideal for testing and debugging.

License: MIT
Current status: beta

Install

Do not forget to install it globally:

npm install -g http-requester

Feature highlights:

HTTP, HTTPS and Websocket requests
Dummy HTTP and Websocket server creation
A cool interactive shell with history and auto-completion (even headers)
An interactive Websocket Chatter

“Like a boss? Screenshot please!”

Screenshot

Available command line options:

Without any argument, it runs the interactive shell
--help, -h: display help
--shell: run requests in an interactive shell, like a boss!
--method : set the HTTP method
--protocol http|https|ws: set the protocol, 'http', 'https' or 'ws'
--host : set the targeted host
--port , -p : set the targeted port, default is 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS)
--path : set the path of the targeted resource in the host
--url : the full URL of the resource, will be splitted into protocol, host, port and path
--headers.* : any header can be specified as an option, e.g. --headers.content-type application/json. If it is not conflicting with another options, it can be used without prefix, like --content-type application/json
--headers : specify all headers using the JSON format
--auth ":": basic authentication i.e. "user:password" to compute an Authorization header
--timeout : set the request timeout in ms
--output , -o : if given, the body's response will be written to this file instead of STDOUT
--http: shortcut for --protocol http
--https: shortcut for --protocol https
--ws: shortcut for --protocol ws
--beautify, -b: beautify JSON body
--server: start a server
--config : a JSON file containing all the above options, structured in an object

Syntactic sugar:

http-requester launch the interactive shell, like http-requester --shell
http-requester <file> load a config file, like http-requester --config <file>
http-requester <url> GET the url, like http-requester --method get --url <url>
http-requester <method> <url> request the url, like http-requester --method <method> --url <url>

Available interactive shell commands:

show or s
List the details of the request about to be performed.
request or req
Perform the request.
<protocol>://<host>[:<port>][/<path>]
Parse the full URL and set the protocol, host, port and path.
E.g.: > http://localhost:8080/blog/index.html
host <hostname>[:<port>]
Set the host and port to connect to.
E.g.: > host localhost:8080
port <port>
Set the port to connect to.
protocol http|https|ws
Set the protocol to use.
method <HTTP method>
Set the HTTP method.
cd <path>
Modify the path just like the shell 'cd' command does. Start the path with a '/' to set the absolute path, otherwise it moves relative to the current path. It does NOT modify the query-string part of the URL.
E.g.: > cd blog , > cd .. , > cd ../../blog/index.html , > cd /index.html , ...
? <query string>
Set the query string part of the URL. Use a single ? alone to erase the query string.
E.g.: > ? , > ?key=value , > ?key1=value1&key2=value2 , ...
headers.<header> <value>
Set a HTTP header.
E.g.: > headers.Content-type: text/html
<header>: <value>
The shortest way to set a HTTP header.
E.g.: > Content-type: text/html
auth <user>:<password>
Basic authentication to compute an Authorization header.
body <body string>
Set the body of the request.
body
Set the body of the request, using the multi-line mode.
timeout <ms>
Set the request timeout in ms.
clear [headers|auth|body]
Clear headers, auth or body, without argument: clear both.
autoclear [headers|auth|body]
Autoclear headers, auth or body after each request, without argument: just check.
autocookie
Turn autocookie on/off.
beautify
Turn beautify on/off for JSON body.
ls
List all known sub-resources of the current path, just like the UNIX 'ls' command does.

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