How to use Ubuntu Httpie

HTTPie is written in Python, so you can install it in almost all places (Linux,macosx,windows). Also, in most Linux distributions there is a compiled installation package.

Debian,ubuntu or Linux Mint:

The code is as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install Httpie

Fedora:

The code is as follows:

$ sudo yum install Httpie

Centos/rhel:

First, enable the Epel warehouse, and then run:

The code is as follows:

$ sudo yum install Httpie

For any Linux distribution, use PIP for another installation method.

The code is as follows:

$ sudo pip install--upgrade httpie

Examples of HTTPie

When you are finished installing HTTPie, you can invoke it by entering the HTTP command. In the remainder of this article, I'll show you a few examples of useful HTTP commands.

Example 1: Customizing the head

You can use

Format to customize the head. For example, we send an HTTP GET request to www.test.com, using a custom user agent (User-agent) and Source (Referer), and a custom header (such as Myparam).


The code is as follows:

$ http www.test.com user-agent:xmodulo/1.0 referer:http://xmodulo.com myparam:foo

Note that when you use the HTTP GET method, you do not have to explicitly specify an HTTP method.

This HTTP request looks like this:

The code is as follows:

get/http/1.1

Host:www.jb51.net

Accept: */*

Referer:http://xmodulo.com

Accept-encoding:gzip, deflate, compress

Myparam:foo

user-agent:xmodulo/1.0

Example 2: Downloading a file

You can use HTTP as a file downloader. You need to redirect the output to a file as follows.

The code is as follows:

$ http www.jb51.net/my_file.zip > My_file.zip

Or:

The code is as follows:

$ http--download www.jb51.net/my_file.zip

Example 3: Customizing the HTTP method

In addition to the default GET method, you can also use other methods (such as Put,post,head). For example, send an HTTP PUT request:

The code is as follows:

$ http PUT www.jb51.net name= ' Dan nanni ' [email protected]

Example 4: Submitting a Form

It is easy to submit the form using the HTTP command, as follows:

The code is as follows:

$ http-f POST www.jb51.net name= ' Dan nanni ' comment= ' Hi there '

The '-f ' option causes the HTTP command to serialize the data field and set ' Content-type ' to ' application/x-www-form-urlencoded; Charset=utf-8 ".

This HTTP POST request looks like this:

The code is as follows:

post/http/1.1

Host:www.jb51.net

Content-length:31

content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; Charset=utf-8

Accept-encoding:gzip, deflate, compress

Accept: */*

user-agent:httpie/0.8.0

Name=dan+nanni&comment=hi+there

Example 5:json support

HTTPie built-in JSON, an increasingly popular data interchange format, is supported. In fact, the content type (Content-type) that HTTPie uses by default is JSON. Therefore, when you do not specify a content type to send data fields, they are automatically serialized as JSON objects.

The code is as follows:

$ http POST www.test.com name= ' Dan nanni ' comment= ' Hi there '

This HTTP POST request looks like this:

The code is as follows:

post/http/1.1

Host:www.jb51.net

Content-length:44

Content-type:application/json; Charset=utf-8

Accept-encoding:gzip, deflate, compress

Accept:application/json

user-agent:httpie/0.8.0

{"Name": "Dan Nanni", "comment": "Hi There"}

Example 6: Output redirection

Another user-friendly feature of HTTPie is the input redirection, which you can use to provide HTTP request content using buffered data. For example:

The code is as follows:

$ http POST Api.jb51.net/db/lookup < My_info.json

Or:

The code is as follows:

$ Echo ' {' name ': ' Dan nanni '} ' | HTTP POST api.test.com/db/lookup

Conclusion

How to use Ubuntu Httpie