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***********************
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HTTPie: cURL for Humans
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***********************
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v0.2.8dev
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☞ `README for stable version`_
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HTTPie is a **command line HTTP client** whose goal is to make CLI interaction
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with web services as **human-friendly** as possible. It provides a
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simple ``http`` command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests with a
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simple and natural syntax, and displays colorized responses. HTTPie can be used
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for **testing, debugging**, and generally **interacting** with HTTP servers.
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.. image:: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/raw/master/httpie.png
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:alt: HTTPie compared to cURL
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:width: 835
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:height: 835
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HTTPie is written in Python, and under the hood it uses the excellent
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`Requests`_ for HTTP and `Pygments`_ for colorizing.
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**Table of Contents**
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.. contents::
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:local:
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:depth: 1
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:backlinks: none
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=============
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Main Features
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=============
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* Expressive and intuitive syntax
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* Formatted and colorized terminal output
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* Built-in JSON support
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* Forms and file uploads
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* HTTPS, proxies, and authentication
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* Arbitrary request data
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* Custom headers
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* Python 2.6 and Python 3 support
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* Linux, Mac OS X and Windows support
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* Documentation
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* Test coverage
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============
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Installation
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============
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The latest **stable version** of HTTPie can always be installed or updated
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to via `pip`_ (prefered)
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or ``easy_install``:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ pip install -U httpie
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ easy_install httpie
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Or, you can install the **development version** directly from GitHub:
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.. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/jkbr/httpie.png
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:target: http://travis-ci.org/jkbr/httpie
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:alt: Build Status of the master branch
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ pip install -U https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master
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There are also packages available for `Ubuntu`_, `Debian`_, and possibly other
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Linux distributions as well. However, they may be a significant delay between
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releases and package updates.
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=====
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Usage
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=====
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Hello World:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http httpie.org
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Synopsis:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http [flags] [METHOD] URL [ITEM [ITEM]]
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See also ``http --help``.
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--------
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Examples
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--------
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Custom `HTTP method`_, `HTTP headers`_ and `JSON`_ data:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http PUT example.org X-API-Token:123 name=John
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Submitting `forms`_:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http -f POST example.org hello=World
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See the request that is being sent using on of the `output options`_:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http -v example.org
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Use `Github API`_ to post a comment on an issue with `authentication`_:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http -a USERNAME POST https://api.github.com/repos/jkbr/httpie/issues/83/comments body='HTTPie is awesome!'
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Upload a file using `redirected input`_:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http example.org < file.json
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Download a file and save it via `redirected output`_:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http example.org/file > file
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--------
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*What follows is a detailed documentation. It covers the command syntax,
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advances usage, and also features additional examples.*
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============
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HTTP Method
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============
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The name of the HTTP method comes right before the URL argument:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http DELETE example.org/todos/7
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Which looks similar to the actual ``Request-Line`` that is sent:
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.. code-block:: http
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DELETE /todos/7 HTTP/1.1
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When the ``METHOD`` argument is **omitted** from the command, HTTPie defaults to
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either ``GET`` (with no request data) or ``POST`` (with request data).
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===========
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Request URL
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===========
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The only information HTTPie needs to perform a request is a URL.
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The default scheme is, somewhat unsurprisingly, ``http://``,
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and can be omitted from the argument – ``http example.org`` works just fine.
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If find yourself manually constructing URLs with **querystring parameters**
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on the terminal, you may appreciate the ``param==value`` syntax for appending
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URL parameters so that you don't have to worry about escaping the ``&``
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separators. To search for ``HTTPie`` on Google Images you could use this
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command:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http GET www.google.com search==HTTPie tbm==isch
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.. code-block:: http
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GET /?search=HTTPie&tbm=isch HTTP/1.1
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=============
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Request Items
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=============
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There are five different *request item* types that provide a
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convenient mechanism for specifying HTTP headers, simple JSON and
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form data, files, and URL parameters.
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They are key/value pairs specified after the URL. All have in
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common that they become part of the actual request that is sent and that
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their type is distinguished only by the separator used:
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``:``, ``=``, ``:=``, ``@``, and ``==``.
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+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
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| Item Type | Description |
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+=======================+=====================================================+
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| HTTP Headers | Arbitrary HTTP header, e.g. ``X-API-Token:123``. |
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| ``Name:Value`` | |
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+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
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| URL parameters | Appends the given name/value pair as a query |
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| ``name==value`` | string parameter to the URL. |
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| | The ``==`` separator is used |
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+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
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| Data Fields | Request data fields to be serialized as a JSON |
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| ``field=value`` | object (default), or to be form encoded (``--form`` |
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| | / ``-f``). |
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+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
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| Raw JSON fields | Useful when sending JSON and one or |
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| ``field:=json`` | more fields need to be a ``Boolean``, ``Number``, |
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| | nested ``Object``, or an ``Array``, e.g., |
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| | ``meals:='["ham","spam"]'`` or ``pies:=[1,2,3]`` |
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| | (note the quotes). |
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+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
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| Files | Only available with ``-f`` / ``--form``. |
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| ``field@/dir/file`` | For example ``screenshot@~/Pictures/img.png``. |
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| | The presence of a file field results |
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| | in a ``multipart/form-data`` request. |
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+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
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You can use ``\`` to escape characters that shouldn't be used as separators
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(or parts thereof). e.g., ``foo\==bar`` will become a data key/value
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pair (``foo=`` and ``bar``) instead of a URL parameter.
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Note that data fields aren't the only way to specify request data,
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`redirected input`_ allows passing arbitrary data to be sent with the request.
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====
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JSON
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====
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JSON is the *lingua franca* of modern web services and it is also the
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**default content type** HTTPie uses:
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If your command includes some data items, they are serialized as a JSON
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object by default. HTTPie also automatically sets the following headers,
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both of which can be overwritten:
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================ =======================================
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``Content-Type`` ``application/json; charset=utf-8``
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``Accept`` ``application/json``
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================ =======================================
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You can use ``--json`` / ``-j`` to set ``Accept`` to ``application/json``
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regardless of whether you are sending data (it's a shortcut for setting
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the header via the usual header notation –
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``http url Accept:application/json``).
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Simple example:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http PUT example.org name=John email=john@example.org
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.. code-block:: http
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PUT / HTTP/1.1
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Accept: application/json
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Accept-Encoding: identity, deflate, compress, gzip
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Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
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Host: example.org
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User-Agent: HTTPie/0.2.7dev
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{
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"name": "John",
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"email": "john@example.org"
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}
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Non-string fields use the ``:=`` separator, which allows you to embed raw JSON
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into the resulting object:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http PUT api.example.com/person/1 name=John age:=29 married:=false hobbies:='["http", "pies"]'
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.. code-block:: http
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PUT /person/1 HTTP/1.1
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Accept: application/json
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Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
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Host: api.example.com
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User-Agent: HTTPie/0.2.7dev
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{
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"age": 29,
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"hobbies": [
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"http",
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"pies"
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],
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"married": false,
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"name": "John"
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}
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Send JSON data stored in a file (see `redirected input`_ for more examples):
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http POST api.example.com/person/1 < person.json
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=====
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Forms
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=====
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Submitting forms is very similar to sending `JSON`_ requests. Often the only
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difference is in adding the ``--form`` / ``-f`` option, which ensures that
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data fields are serialized as, and ``Content-Type`` is set to,
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``application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8``.
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-------------
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Regular Forms
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-------------
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http --form POST api.example.org/person/1 name='John Smith' email=john@example.org
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.. code-block:: http
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POST /person/1 HTTP/1.1
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User-Agent: HTTPie/0.2.7dev
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Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8
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name=John+Smith&email=john%40example.org
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-----------------
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File Upload Forms
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-----------------
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If one or more file fields is present, the serialization and content type is
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``multipart/form-data``:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http -f POST example.com/jobs name='John Smith' cv@~/Documents/cv.pdf
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The request above is the same as if the following HTML form were
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submitted:
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.. code-block:: html
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<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="http://example.com/jobs">
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<input type="text" name="name" />
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<input type="file" name="cv" />
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</form>
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============
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HTTP Headers
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============
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To set custom headers you can use the ``Header:Value`` notation:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http example.org User-Agent:Bacon/1.0 Cookie:valued-visitor=yes X-Foo:Bar Referer:http://httpie.org/
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.. code-block:: http
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GET / HTTP/1.1
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Accept: */*
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Accept-Encoding: identity, deflate, compress, gzip
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Cookie: valued-visitor=yes
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Host: example.org
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Referer: http://httpie.org/
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User-Agent: Bacon/1.0
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X-Foo: Bar
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There are a couple of default headers that HTTPie sets:
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.. code-block:: http
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GET / HTTP/1.1
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Accept: */*
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Accept-Encoding: identity, deflate, compress, gzip
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User-Agent: HTTPie/<version>
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Host: <taken-from-URL>
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Any of the default headers can be overwritten.
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==============
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Authentication
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==============
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The currently supported authentication schemes are Basic and Digest (more to
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come). There are two flags that control authentication:
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=================== ======================================================
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``--auth, -a`` Pass a ``username:password`` pair as
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the argument. Or, if you only specify a username
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(``-a username``), you'll be prompted for
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the password before the request is sent.
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To send a an empty password, pass ``username:``.
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``--auth-type`` Specify the auth mechanism. Possible values are
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``basic`` and ``digest``. The default value is
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``basic`` so it can often be omitted.
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=================== ======================================================
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Authorization information from ``.netrc`` is respected as well.
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Basic auth:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http -a username:password example.org
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Digest auth:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http --auth-type=digest -a username:password example.org
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With password prompt:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http -a username example.org
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=======
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Proxies
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=======
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You can specify proxies to be used through the ``--proxy`` argument:
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.. code-block:: bash
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http --proxy=http:10.10.1.10:3128 --https:10.10.1.10:1080 example.org
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With Basic authentication:
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.. code-block:: bash
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http --proxy=http:http://user:pass@10.10.1.10:3128 example.org
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You can also configure proxies by environment variables ``HTTP_PROXY`` and
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``HTTPS_PROXY``, and the underlying Requests library will pick them up as well.
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If you want to disable proxies configured through the environment variables for
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certain hosts, you can specify them in ``NO_PROXY``.
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In your ``~/.bash_profile``:
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.. code-block:: bash
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export HTTP_PROXY=10.10.1.10:3128
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export HTTPS_PROXY=10.10.1.10:1080
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export NO_PROXY=localhost,example.com
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=====
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HTTPS
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=====
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To skip the host's SSL certificate verification, you can pass ``--verify=no``
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(default is ``yes``). You can also use ``--verify`` to set a custom CA bundle
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path. The path can also be configured via the environment variable
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``REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE``.
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==============
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Output Options
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==============
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By default, HTTPie outputs the whole response message (headers as well as the
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body).
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You can control what should be printed via several options:
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================= =====================================================
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``--headers, -h`` Only the response headers are printed.
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``--body, -b`` Only the response body is printed.
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``--verbose, -v`` Print the whole HTTP exchange (request and response).
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``--print, -p`` Selects parts of the HTTP exchange.
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================= =====================================================
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``--verbose`` can often be useful for debugging the request and generating
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documentation examples:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http --verbose PUT httpbin.org/put hello=world
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PUT /put HTTP/1.1
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Accept: application/json
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Accept-Encoding: identity, deflate, compress, gzip
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Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
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Host: httpbin.org
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User-Agent: HTTPie/0.2.7dev
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{
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"hello": "world"
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}
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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Connection: keep-alive
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Content-Length: 477
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Content-Type: application/json
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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:25:23 GMT
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Server: gunicorn/0.13.4
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{
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[…]
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}
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All the other options are just a shortcut for ``--print`` / ``-p``.
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It accepts a string of characters each of which represents a specific part of
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the HTTP exchange:
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========== ==================
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Character Stands for
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========== ==================
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``H`` Request headers.
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``B`` Request body.
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``h`` Response headers.
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``b`` Response body.
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========== ==================
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Print request and response headers:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http --print=Hh PUT httpbin.org/put hello=world
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-------------------------
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Conditional Body Download
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-------------------------
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As an optimization, the response body is downloaded from the server
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only if it's part of the output. This is similar to performing a ``HEAD``
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request, except that it applies to any HTTP method you use.
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Let's say that there is an API that returns the whole resource when it is
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updated, but you are only interested in the response headers to see the
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status code after an update:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http --headers PATCH example.org/Really-Huge-Resource name='New Name'
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Since we are only printing the HTTP headers here, the connection to the server
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is closed as soon as all the response headers have been received.
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Therefore, bandwidth and time isn't wasted downloading the body
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which you don't care about.
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The response headers are downloaded always, even if they are not part of
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the output
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================
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Redirected Input
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================
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**A universal method for passing request data is through redirected** ``stdin``
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(standard input). Such data is buffered and then with no further processing
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used as the request body. There are multiple useful ways to use piping:
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Redirect from a file:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ http PUT example.com/person/1 X-API-Token:123 < person.json
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Or the output of another program:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ grep /var/log/httpd/error_log '401 Unauthorized' | http POST example.org/intruders
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You can use ``echo`` for simple data:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ echo '{"name": "John"}' | http PATCH example.com/person/1 X-API-Token:123
|
||
|
||
|
||
You can even pipe web services together using HTTPie:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ http GET https://api.github.com/repos/jkbr/httpie | http POST httpbin.org/post
|
||
|
||
|
||
You can use ``cat`` to enter multiline data on the terminal:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ cat | http POST example.com⏎
|
||
<paste>
|
||
^D
|
||
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ cat | http POST example.com/todos Content-Type:text/plain⏎
|
||
- buy milk
|
||
- call parents
|
||
^D
|
||
|
||
|
||
On OS X, you can send the contents of the clipboard with ``pbpaste``:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ pbpaste | http PUT example.com
|
||
|
||
|
||
Passing data through ``stdin`` cannot be combined with data fields specified
|
||
on the command line.
|
||
|
||
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
Body Data From a Filename
|
||
-------------------------
|
||
|
||
**An alternative to redirected** ``stdin`` is specifying a filename (as
|
||
``@/path/to/file``) whose content is used as if it came from ``stdin``.
|
||
|
||
It has the advantage that **the** ``Content-Type``
|
||
**header is automatically set** to the appropriate value based on the
|
||
filename extension. For example, the following request sends the
|
||
verbatim contents of that XML file with ``Content-Type: application/xml``:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ http PUT httpbin.org/put @/data/file.xml
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================
|
||
Terminal Output
|
||
=================
|
||
|
||
HTTPie does several things by default in order to make its terminal output
|
||
easy to read.
|
||
|
||
|
||
---------------------
|
||
Colors and Formatting
|
||
---------------------
|
||
|
||
Syntax highlighting is applied to HTTP headers and bodies (where it makes
|
||
sense). You can choose your prefered color scheme via the ``--style`` option
|
||
if you don't like the default one (see ``$ http --help`` for the possible
|
||
values).
|
||
|
||
Also, the following formatting is applied:
|
||
|
||
* HTTP headers are sorted by name.
|
||
* JSON data is indented, sorted by keys, and unicode escapes are converted
|
||
to the characters they represent.
|
||
|
||
One of these options can be used to control output processing:
|
||
|
||
=============== ==============================================================
|
||
``--pretty`` Apply both colors and formatting. Default for terminal output.
|
||
``--colors`` Apply colors.
|
||
``--format`` Apply formatting.
|
||
``--ugly, -u`` Disables output processing. Default for redirected output.
|
||
=============== ==============================================================
|
||
|
||
-----------
|
||
Binary data
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
Binary data is suppressed for terminal output, which makes it safe to perform
|
||
requests to URLs that send back binary data. Binary data is suppressed also in
|
||
redirected, but prettified output. The connection is closed as soon as we know
|
||
that the response body is binary,
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
http example.org/Movie.mov
|
||
|
||
|
||
You will nearly instantly see something like this:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: http
|
||
|
||
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
|
||
Accept-Ranges: bytes
|
||
Content-Encoding: gzip
|
||
Content-Type: video/quicktime
|
||
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
|
||
|
||
+-----------------------------------------+
|
||
| NOTE: binary data not shown in terminal |
|
||
+-----------------------------------------+
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================
|
||
Redirected Output
|
||
=================
|
||
|
||
HTTPie uses **different defaults** for redirected output than for
|
||
`terminal output`_:
|
||
|
||
* Formatting and colors aren't applied (unless ``--pretty``, ``--format``,
|
||
or ``--colors`` is set).
|
||
* Only the response body is printed (unless one of the `output options`_ is set).
|
||
* Also, binary data isn't suppressed.
|
||
|
||
The reason is to make piping HTTPie's output to another programs and
|
||
downloading files work with no extra flags. Most of the time, only the raw
|
||
response body is of an interest when the output is redirected.
|
||
|
||
Download a file:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ http example.org/Movie.mov > Movie.mov
|
||
|
||
|
||
Download an image of Octocat, resize it using ImageMagick, upload it elsewhere:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ http octodex.github.com/images/original.jpg | convert - -resize 25% - | http example.org/Octocats
|
||
|
||
|
||
Force colorizing and formatting, and show both the request and the response in
|
||
``less`` pager:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ http --pretty --verbose example.org | less -R
|
||
|
||
|
||
The ``-R`` flag tells ``less`` to interpret color escape sequences included
|
||
HTTPie`s output.
|
||
|
||
|
||
==================
|
||
Streamed Responses
|
||
==================
|
||
|
||
Responses are downloaded and printed in chunks, which allows for streaming
|
||
and large file downloads without using too much RAM. However, when
|
||
`colors and formatting`_ is applied, the whole response is buffered and only
|
||
then processed at once.
|
||
|
||
|
||
You can use the ``--stream, -S`` flag to make two things happen:
|
||
|
||
1. The output is flushed in **much smaller chunks** without any buffering,
|
||
which makes HTTPie behave kind of like ``tail -f`` for URLs.
|
||
|
||
2. Streaming becomes enabled even when the output is prettified: It will be
|
||
applied to **each line** of the response and flushed immediately. This makes
|
||
it possible to have a nice output for long-lived requests, such as one
|
||
to the Twitter streaming API.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Prettified streamed response:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ http --stream -f -a YOUR-TWITTER-NAME https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json track='Justin Bieber'
|
||
|
||
|
||
Streamed output by small chunks alá ``tail -f``:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
# Send each new tweet (JSON object) mentioning "Apple" to another
|
||
# server as soon as it arrives from the Twitter streaming API:
|
||
$ http --stream -f -a YOUR-TWITTER-NAME https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json track=Apple \
|
||
| while read tweet; do echo "$tweet" | http POST example.org/tweets ; done
|
||
|
||
|
||
=========
|
||
Scripting
|
||
=========
|
||
|
||
When using HTTPie from **shell scripts**, it can be handy to set the
|
||
``--check-status`` flag. It instructs HTTPie to exit with an error if the
|
||
HTTP status is one of ``3xx``, ``4xx``, or ``5xx``. The exit status will
|
||
be ``3`` (unless ``--allow-redirects`` is set), ``4``, or ``5``,
|
||
respectively. Also, the ``--timeout`` option allows to overwrite the default
|
||
30s timeout:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
#!/bin/bash
|
||
|
||
if http --timeout=2.5 --check-status HEAD example.org/health &> /dev/null; then
|
||
echo 'OK!'
|
||
else
|
||
case $? in
|
||
2) echo 'Request timed out!' ;;
|
||
3) echo 'Unexpected HTTP 3xx Redirection!' ;;
|
||
4) echo 'HTTP 4xx Client Error!' ;;
|
||
5) echo 'HTTP 5xx Server Error!' ;;
|
||
*) echo 'Other Error!' ;;
|
||
esac
|
||
fi
|
||
|
||
|
||
================
|
||
Interface Design
|
||
================
|
||
|
||
The syntax of the command arguments closely corresponds to the actual HTTP
|
||
requests sent over the wire. It has the advantage that it's easy to remember
|
||
and read. It is often possible to translate an HTTP request to an HTTPie
|
||
argument list just by inlining the request elements. For example, compare this
|
||
HTTP request:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: http
|
||
|
||
POST /collection HTTP/1.1
|
||
X-API-Key: 123
|
||
User-Agent: Bacon/1.0
|
||
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
|
||
|
||
name=value&name2=value2
|
||
|
||
|
||
with the HTTPie command that sends it:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ http -f POST example.org/collection \
|
||
X-API-Key:123 \
|
||
User-Agent:Bacon/1.0 \
|
||
name=value \
|
||
name2=value2
|
||
|
||
|
||
Notice that both the order of elements and the syntax is very similar,
|
||
and that only a small portion of the command is used to control HTTPie and
|
||
doesn't directly correspond to any part of the request (here it's only ``-f``
|
||
asking HTTPie to send a form request).
|
||
|
||
The two modes, ``--pretty`` (default for terminal) and ``--ugly, -u``
|
||
(default for redirected output), allow for both user-friendly interactive use
|
||
and usage from scripts, where HTTPie serves as a generic HTTP client.
|
||
|
||
As HTTPie is still under heavy development, the existing command line
|
||
syntax and some of the ``--OPTIONS`` may change slightly before
|
||
HTTPie reaches its final version ``1.0``. All changes are recorded in the
|
||
`changelog`_.
|
||
|
||
|
||
==========
|
||
Contribute
|
||
==========
|
||
|
||
Bug reports and code and documentation patches are greatly appretiated. You can
|
||
also help by using the development version of HTTPie and reporting any bugs you
|
||
might encounter.
|
||
|
||
Before working on a new feature or a bug, please browse the `existing issues`_
|
||
to see whether it has been previously discussed. If the change in question
|
||
is a bigger one, it's always good to discuss before your starting working on
|
||
it.
|
||
|
||
Then fork and clone `the repository`_.
|
||
|
||
It's very useful to point the ``http`` command to your local branch during
|
||
development. To do so, install HTTPie with ``pip`` in editable mode:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
$ pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall --editable .
|
||
|
||
|
||
Please run the existing suite of tests before a pull request is submitted:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
python setup.py test
|
||
|
||
|
||
`Tox`_ can also be used to conveniently run tests in all of the
|
||
`supported Python environments`_:
|
||
|
||
.. code-block:: bash
|
||
|
||
# Install tox
|
||
pip install tox
|
||
|
||
# Run tests
|
||
tox
|
||
|
||
|
||
Don't forget to add yourself to `AUTHORS.rst`_.
|
||
|
||
|
||
=======
|
||
Authors
|
||
=======
|
||
|
||
`Jakub Roztocil`_ (`@jakubroztocil`_) created HTTPie and `these fine people`_
|
||
have contributed.
|
||
|
||
|
||
=======
|
||
Licence
|
||
=======
|
||
|
||
Please see `LICENSE`_.
|
||
|
||
|
||
=========
|
||
Changelog
|
||
=========
|
||
|
||
*You can click a version name to see a diff with the previous one.*
|
||
|
||
* `0.2.8dev`_
|
||
* CRLF HTTP header field separation in the output.
|
||
* Added exit status code ``2`` for timed-out requests.
|
||
* Added ``--colors`` and ``--format`` in addition to ``--pretty``, to
|
||
be able to separate colorizing and formatting.
|
||
* `0.2.7`_ (2012-08-07)
|
||
* Compatibility with Requests 0.13.6.
|
||
* Streamed terminal output. ``--stream`` / ``-S`` can be used to enable
|
||
streaming also with ``--pretty`` and to ensure a more frequent output
|
||
flushing.
|
||
* Support for efficient large file downloads.
|
||
* Sort headers by name (unless ``--ugly``).
|
||
* Response body is fetched only when needed (e.g., not with ``--headers``).
|
||
* Improved content type matching.
|
||
* Updated Solarized color scheme.
|
||
* Windows: Added ``--output FILE`` to store output into a file
|
||
(piping results in corrupted data on Windows).
|
||
* Proper handling of binary requests and responses.
|
||
* Fixed printing of ``multipart/form-data`` requests.
|
||
* Renamed ``--traceback`` to ``--debug``.
|
||
* `0.2.6`_ (2012-07-26)
|
||
* The short option for ``--headers`` is now ``-h`` (``-t`` has been
|
||
removed, for usage use ``--help``).
|
||
* Form data and URL parameters can have multiple fields with the same name
|
||
(e.g.,``http -f url a=1 a=2``).
|
||
* Added ``--check-status`` to exit with an error on HTTP 3xx, 4xx and
|
||
5xx (3, 4, and 5, respectively).
|
||
* If the output is piped to another program or redirected to a file,
|
||
the default behaviour is to only print the response body.
|
||
(It can still be overwritten via the ``--print`` flag.)
|
||
* Improved highlighting of HTTP headers.
|
||
* Added query string parameters (``param==value``).
|
||
* Added support for terminal colors under Windows.
|
||
* `0.2.5`_ (2012-07-17)
|
||
* Unicode characters in prettified JSON now don't get escaped for
|
||
improved readability.
|
||
* --auth now prompts for a password if only a username provided.
|
||
* Added support for request payloads from a file path with automatic
|
||
``Content-Type`` (``http URL @/path``).
|
||
* Fixed missing query string when displaying the request headers via
|
||
``--verbose``.
|
||
* Fixed Content-Type for requests with no data.
|
||
* `0.2.2`_ (2012-06-24)
|
||
* The ``METHOD`` positional argument can now be omitted (defaults to
|
||
``GET``, or to ``POST`` with data).
|
||
* Fixed --verbose --form.
|
||
* Added support for `Tox`_.
|
||
* `0.2.1`_ (2012-06-13)
|
||
* Added compatibility with ``requests-0.12.1``.
|
||
* Dropped custom JSON and HTTP lexers in favor of the ones newly included
|
||
in ``pygments-1.5``.
|
||
* `0.2.0`_ (2012-04-25)
|
||
* Added Python 3 support.
|
||
* Added the ability to print the HTTP request as well as the response
|
||
(see ``--print`` and ``--verbose``).
|
||
* Added support for Digest authentication.
|
||
* Added file upload support
|
||
(``http -f POST file_field_name@/path/to/file``).
|
||
* Improved syntax highlighting for JSON.
|
||
* Added support for field name escaping.
|
||
* Many bug fixes.
|
||
* `0.1.6`_ (2012-03-04)
|
||
|
||
|
||
.. _Requests: http://python-requests.org
|
||
.. _Pygments: http://pygments.org/
|
||
.. _pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html
|
||
.. _Tox: http://tox.testrun.org
|
||
.. _Github API: http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/comments/#create-a-comment
|
||
.. _supported Python environments: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/blob/master/tox.ini
|
||
.. _Ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/httpie
|
||
.. _Debian: http://packages.debian.org/httpie
|
||
.. _the repository: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
|
||
.. _these fine people: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/contributors
|
||
.. _Jakub Roztocil: http://roztocil.name
|
||
.. _@jakubroztocil: https://twitter.com/jakubroztocil
|
||
.. _existing issues: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/issues?state=open
|
||
.. _0.1.6: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.1.4...0.1.6
|
||
.. _0.2.0: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.1.6...0.2.0
|
||
.. _0.2.1: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.2.0...0.2.1
|
||
.. _0.2.2: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.2.1...0.2.2
|
||
.. _0.2.5: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.2.2...0.2.5
|
||
.. _0.2.6: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.2.5...0.2.6
|
||
.. _0.2.7: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.2.5...0.2.7
|
||
.. _0.2.8dev: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/compare/0.2.7...master
|
||
.. _README for stable version: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tree/0.2.7#readme
|
||
.. _AUTHORS.rst: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst
|
||
.. _LICENSE: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/blob/master/LICENSE
|