HttpShell For Linux

HttpShell is an interactive shell for issuing HTTP commands to a web server or REST API.

Issue HTTP commands (HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to a server with visual feedback. Makes debugging REST services much more interactive than cURL.

Treats the server like a filesystem:

$ httpsh http://api.twitter.com/a/statuses api.twitter.com:/1/statuses > get public_timeline.json

HTTP/1.1 200 OK >content-length: 40945 >vary: Accept-Encoding >x-transaction-mask: a6183ffa5f8ca943ff1b53b5644ef1140f40ebd7 ...

Use familiar shell commands:

api.twitter.com:/1/statuses > cd .. api.twitter.com:/1/ > cd / api.twitter.com:/ >

Pipe output to external commands for formatting, etc:

api.twitter.com:/1/statuses > get public_timeline.xml | xmllint -format - ... < ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? > < statuses type="array" >  < status >  < created_at >Wed Dec 14 00:57:12 +0000 2011< /created_at > ...

Post data to server: $ httpsh http://localhost:28017 localhost:28017:/ > post /foo/bar ... { "a" : 123456 } ... HTTP/1.0 201 >content-type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 >connection: close >x-ns: foo._defaultCollection >content-length: 15 >x-action: bar

{ "ok" : true }

Use JSON to post to web forms using special "@{}" notation!

somewebsite:/ > post /some/form/handler ... @{ ... "name": "Chris", ... "occupation": "Developer" ... }

Converts the JSON definition above to: name=Chris&occupation=Developer for form posting.

Set headers:

localhost:28017:/ > .headers Cookie:session=5cb9586618eea2374377bb1584f7de74 localhost:28017:/ > .headers User-Agent:AppleWebKit/535.13 localhost:28017:/ > .headers < Cookie: session=5cb9586618eea2374377bb1584f7de74 < User-Agent: AppleWebKit/535.13

Verbs  head [< /path/to/resource >] [| < external command >]  get [< /path/to/resource >]  post [< /path/to/resource >] [data]  put [< /path/to/resource >] [data]  delete < /path/to/resource > Navigation  cd < /path/to/resource > or .. Metacommands  .headers [< name >]:[< value >]  .quit

 python setup.py install

Or if pip is installed:

 pip install httpshell

May require sudo to install!