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http — HTTPie: an HTTP client designed for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with APIs and HTTP

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Problem

How to use the http command: HTTPie: an HTTP client designed for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with APIs and HTTP servers. See also: xh. More information: <https://httpie.io/docs/cli/usage>.

Solution

http — HTTPie: an HTTP client designed for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with APIs and HTTP servers. See also: xh. More information: <https://httpie.io/docs/cli/usage>.

Make a simple GET request (shows response headers and content):

http {{https://example.com}}

Print specific parts of the content (H: request headers, B: request body, h: response headers, b: response body, m: response metadata):

http {{[-p|--print]}} {{H|B|h|b|m|Hh|Hhb|...}} {{https://example.com}}

Specify the HTTP method when sending a request and use a proxy to intercept the request:

http {{GET|POST|HEAD|PUT|PATCH|DELETE|...}} --proxy {{http|https}}:{{http://localhost:8080|socks5://localhost:9050|...}} {{https://example.com}}

Follow any 3xx redirects and specify additional headers in a request:

http {{[-F|--follow]}} {{https://example.com}} {{'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0' 'Accept-Encoding: gzip'}}

Authenticate to a server using different authentication methods:

http {{[-a|--auth]}} {{username:password|token}} {{[-A|--auth-type]}} {{basic|digest|bearer}} {{GET|POST|...}} {{https://example.com/auth}}

Construct a request but do not send it (similar to a dry-run):

http --offline {{GET|DELETE|...}} {{https://example.com}}

Use named sessions for persistent custom headers, auth credentials and cookies:

http --session {{session_name|path/to/session.json}} {{[-a|--auth]}} {{username}}:{{password}} {{https://example.com/auth}} {{API-KEY:xxx}}

Upload a file to a form (the example below assumes that the form field is <input type="file" name="cv" />):

http {{[-f|--form]}} {{POST}} {{https://example.com/upload}} {{cv@path/to/file}}

Code Snippets

Make a simple GET request (shows response headers and content)

http {{https://example.com}}

Print specific parts of the content (`H`: request headers, `B`: request body, `h`: response headers, `b`: response body, `m`: response metadata)

http {{[-p|--print]}} {{H|B|h|b|m|Hh|Hhb|...}} {{https://example.com}}

Specify the HTTP method when sending a request and use a proxy to intercept the request

http {{GET|POST|HEAD|PUT|PATCH|DELETE|...}} --proxy {{http|https}}:{{http://localhost:8080|socks5://localhost:9050|...}} {{https://example.com}}

Follow any `3xx` redirects and specify additional headers in a request

http {{[-F|--follow]}} {{https://example.com}} {{'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0' 'Accept-Encoding: gzip'}}

Authenticate to a server using different authentication methods

http {{[-a|--auth]}} {{username:password|token}} {{[-A|--auth-type]}} {{basic|digest|bearer}} {{GET|POST|...}} {{https://example.com/auth}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/http

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