[jicea]

Emulating an HTTP session (with cookies passing) between request is more complicated for instance. Retry based on response content is doable but easier with a declarative format. jq is perfect for JSON response, what about HTML/XML response? Our testers prefer to write a text based declarative test, instead of a Bash script. It depends on your needs/backgrounds.

[defanor]

> Emulating an HTTP session (with cookies passing) between request is more complicated for instance.

Are cookie jars not sufficient for that? Curl supports those on its own.

[justonemore3]

Thanks four your reply - just had restful services in my mind when writing my response.

[nerdponx]

At that point wouldn't you want to use Python, Node, Ruby, etc?

[brigandish]

Using a binary can be (in my experience, 99% of the time) an enormous convenience and performance boost over including a whole runtime for those languages.