curl vs HTTPie
Debates on the merits of HTTPie and alternatives like Hurl compared to curl for CLI HTTP requests, highlighting curl's versatility and questioning the need for replacements.
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HTTPie is great, but sometimes you need curl. Curl supports a lot more protocols.
No really, I'm curious. What does a tool like this offer over curl?
What's wrong with just plain old curl?
This tool pops up every few months, not sure why anyone would use it over curl
HTTPie is great! I’ve replaced curl with it in my daily workflow
My feature request: a way to generate curl commands, fetch, etc. Browsers can do it, why not a dedicated client for making http calls?
Shameless plug: why not switch to Hurl [1], an open source cli tool to run and test HTTP requests in plain text, with libcurl under the hood? (I'm one of the maintainer)[1]: https://hurl.dev
Couldn't it use curl just as easily?
You may like Hurl [1]: it's an Open source cli based on curl (libcurl to be exact), to run and test HTTP requests with plain text (I'm one of the maintainers). We recently add --curl option to come back to curl. Give it a shout![1]: https://hurl.dev
Seriously question. What makes curl so special? Couldn't the same be said e.g. for wget?