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Ask HN: What are modern alternatives for cURL?

4 points by punkpeye ↗ HN
I am handcrafting increasingly more adhoc HTTP requests that I need to sometimes re-use.

The way I do it now is just by writing cURL that I keep in a notebook. However, I was wondering if there are more advanced CLI based HTTP clients I should consider that make it easier to inspect request/response?

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NaughtyShiba
Heard newman mentioned couple times in previous job few months back. Didn’t use it, description looks fair enough, but requires postman to some extent
sp332
Postman is a pretty good GUI application for making advanced, weird, complicated queries and saving them for later.
IceMetalPunk
PostMan's the standard, in my experience. But if you use VSCode, I recommend Thunder Client instead. It's more or less identical to PostMan, but integrated into VSCode as an extension, which is nice if you're already spending a lot of time in that IDE anyway.
punkpeye
I am sure it is great, but it feels so overwhelming! I tried it a few times and I just get lost in it
approxim8ion
httpie is what people use on the command line as far as I know.

Personally, I prefer using Postman or ThunderClient. They're bloated but featureful.