GUI frontend for cURL for testing an API [closed]

问题:

I'm (manually) testing a RESTful API that makes full use of GET/POST/PUT/DELETE methods. Rather than using cURL on the command line to quickly test different input options, it would be handy if there were a windows GUI application to make this easier. Does anything like that exist?

回答1:

Use Poster with Firefox.

回答2:

I know this post is a bit old, but Dev HTTP Client for Chrome is by far the best plugin I've found.

Along with providing a nice UI that pretty formats responses (like JSON and XML), it allows you to save any requests. IMHO, the best feature is the ability to set different "contexts" and set variables. For instance, you can have a "production" and "dev" context, each with a "host" variable. Then your request string could be http://${host}/foo.

回答3:

Insomnia is a beautiful desktop application for Windows, Mac and Linux for debugging restful APIs (my personal favourite)

Postman is a Chrome extension for API testing and doing custom http requests. You can save requests for later use, setup different environments (staging, deployment) and collaborate and share requests with others on your team.

HttpRequester for Firefox is similar to Postman.

回答4:

I like RESTclient. It doesn't format HTML, though (I assume Poster does), so if you get a 500 error you get to dredge through the return text yourself.

回答5:

Also XHR POSTER with Chrome
I would say has a better UI then Poster.

Update
XHR has been giving me problems. DHC by Restlet for Chrome is pretty nice also.

回答6:

Found a useful (free) web tool for this that now exists!

https://curlbuilder.com/

回答7:

Try gURL: http://code.google.com/p/gurl/ This is a simple HTTP-request generator, based on curl

回答8:

Paw for OS X is pretty nice. $29.99 as of this writing.

回答9:

Fiddler is a very good tool. You can see history of requests, supports all HTTP verbs, completes the request with necessary headers (like Content-Length). The feature you are looking for is called "Request Builder".

回答10:

In the interest of trying to keep this list up to date, here is an even better, newer Chrome extension: Advanced REST Client

回答11:

Out of all the Firefox extensions I tried, HttpRequester is the best tool for me. It is very clear and doesn't lack a feature.

For Chrome, I would recommend Advanced REST client or Postman.

回答12:

I think Hurl is a great candidate for that?