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It would be good to have this in the README, yeah.
My reason for using it is its speed. HTTPie unfortunately has a long startup time, enough to be annoying. xh
can be 10+ times as fast on requests to localhost, or even 50+ times if you disable coloring (which is weirdly expensive).
Other advantages over HTTPie:
- It releases as a single statically linked binary, so it's easier to install and carry around.
- It supports HTTP/2 (without a plugin).
- It has a builtin translator to
curl
like https://curl2httpie.online/ (#69). --help
's output fits on your screen. (help
gives longer output, like HTTPie's.)
Downsides:
- It doesn't have all of HTTPie's features.
- You can't disable HTTP/2 (#68), and large downloads over HTTP/2 perform badly (#49). (A solution has been merged in
reqwest
so we can fix the download speed after its next release.) - It may never have anything like HTTPie's plugin system.
- General immaturity. HTTPie has seen a lot of real-world usage, that's hard to beat.
- Worse documentation. HTTPie's docs are very impressive, and you can even try out commands right on the webpage using termible. (Maybe we could do that by compiling to WebAssembly?)
Differences:
- Headers are sent and printed in lowercase (because of the libraries used).
I can't think of any (important) deliberate incompatibilities with HTTPie. There are a few edge cases it handles differently, but they should only come up rarely.
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One more advantage xh
has over HTTPie is that it uses rustls instead of the system's installed TLS library.
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Related Issues (20)
- Make JSON indentation level configurable (e.g. 2 or 4 spaces) HOT 2
- Alternative for cURL --resolve flag HOT 14
- Differences from HTTPie HOT 1
- IRI output HOT 8
- xh doesn't translate `[` and `]` to curl correctly. HOT 1
- Make appearances of the progress bar closer to HTTPie HOT 1
- HTTP NTLM Auth Support HOT 2
- Latest release fails to build on NetBSD HOT 12
- Install 0.19.3 fails HOT 12
- Install fails on MacOS 13.6.1 HOT 6
- Fish completion should not show file by default HOT 2
- Equivalent command to curl -d HOT 5
- add xh to winget package manager? HOT 2
- Feature request: support unix domain socket HOT 1
- when add `--download` flag , xh does not requests the compressed response body HOT 3
- [Proposal] Display remote IP address like chrome dev tools does HOT 3
- JSON pretty printing inserts extra newline HOT 3
- Incorrect Syntax Reference HOT 1
- Partial download crashes with regex parse error HOT 2
- macos: `xh` config directory not in xdg dirs
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