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emj on Nov 26, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

Curl is a good tool to familiarize yourself with, but I've written test with curl and bash it is very cumbersome this is another level of awesomeness for that. If all you are going to do is connect to a server with some json, then curl is ok, I agree that nc/telnet/socat might be a bit extreme.

Hurl is not enough for some of the tests I want to write, i.e. testing sending a 50MB file, or dynamic content.

zodvik on Nov 26, 2022 [–]

Yep

If you're going to do a single request or a few requests in isolation, curl is the way to do.

If you wanna do a full fledged testing suite, might as well using a proper scripting language or a test framework.

Hurl hits the spot between those two for me.

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