[jabr]

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

https://github.com/httpie/cli

[mixmastamyk]

I preferred this for years but beware of new management, telemetry and little mention of it. This is from the desktop app but I've seen Little/Open Snitch warn about the CLI as well:

https://github.com/httpie/desktop/issues/176

[jkbr]

HTTPie creator here. Just a clarification: HTTPie is still under the same management, and the CLI doesn’t have any telemetry. Little Snitch is probably warning you about requests to packages.httpie.io/latest.json [0]. That is done to let you know when a new version becomes available. It’s a static file hosted through GitHub pages [1] without any tracking. However, there’s currently a bug [2] that prevents the response from getting cached so that the request fires frequently for some users. It’s already fixed in a PR [3] and will be part of the upcoming release.

[0] https://github.com/httpie/cli/blob/master/httpie/internal/up...

[1] https://github.com/httpie/packages.httpie.io/blob/master/lat...

[2] https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1527

[3] https://github.com/httpie/cli/pull/1531

[mixmastamyk]

Good to know, however updates are a job for my package manager. Imagine dig or awk phoning home for updates? I could see a flag to ask for it specifically.

[xwowsersx]

This is what I've been using for a while now as well. I wasn't aware of the telemetry in the CLI, as mentioned in another reply. That's something I'll need to look into.

[jkbr]

Please see my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337485

[alt187]

I'll consider HTTPie when they make man pages I can look at in my CLI. This web "documentation" is atrocious.

[jkbr]

What is it that makes the web documentation atrocious in your view?

As for man pages, HTTPie has been shipping them since v3.2 [1].

Try `man http` or `http --manual`.

[1] https://httpie.io/blog/httpie-3.2.0#man-pages