Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

Working with the curl and httpie command-line tools

We will start with command-line tools. One of the key advantages of command-line tools is that we can easily run again the HTTP requests after we build them for the first time, and we don't need to use the mouse or to tap the screen to run requests. We can also easily build a script with batch requests and run them. As happens with any command-line tool, it can take more time to perform the first requests compared with GUI tools, but it becomes easier once we've performed many requests and we can easily reuse the commands we have written in the past to compose new requests.

Curl, also known as cURL, is a very popular open source command-line tool and library that allows us to easily transfer ...