dothttp - Perform http requests defined in files

When developing a web app I often find myself keeping a file with a bunch of http/curl/wget commands which I use for testing.

Being able to define such HTTP requests in a simple readable format resembling the HTTP standard makes sense.

This could also be used for E2E or integration testing.

File format

Method Request-URI
Header-field: Header-value
...
Request-Body

Multiple requests

A file can contain multiple requests separated by three hash signs (###). Please see examples/heads.http

Request-Body Shell Expressions

Evaluate shell expressions in the request body using $(expression). Please see examples/postman.http

Example

GET http://httpbin.org/
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: text/html
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,es;q=0.8

Please see the examples/ folder for more.

Install

pip3 install dothttp

Usage

dothttp examples/request.http

Or

dothttp examples/request.http examples/httpbin.http ...

Or

dothttp examples/*.http

Or

echo "GET https://www.google.com" | dothttp -

Quirks/Notes

• Request URI needs to be absolute
• If the "Host" header is not set the hostname from the Request-URI is used

Releases

1.3.0

• Request-Body Shell Expressions

1.2.0

• Multi request files

1.1.0

• Syntax highlighting of output

1.0.1

• Bug fix

1.0.0

• Initial release