[avel]

This extension also keeps a history of requests.

How complicated are your requests? If I need to test a POST request with a JSON payload longer than a line or two, I'll go and construct my curl command in a text editor anyway, since the shell prompt / readline is not easy to edit. Once you need to start escaping single or double quotes or html payloads in the request, it quickly gets cumbersome. At that point I ditch the shell as a middleman and use the editor to submit the request for me.

[halpert]

You can have curl read the request body from a file using --data @filename.txt.

[piaste]

Which means you've opened an editor already to edit the request. Might as well send the request right there via an editor command/plugin.

[halpert]

Or you saved the response from a different curl request, or it’s checked into git, or a million different reasons.