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Comment by pimlottc | Hacker News Reader

Could we all just agree to stop using the adjective “modern”? It’s such a weasal word. If there are advantages to your program, describe them. Simply being “newer” or in the currently trendy style does not make it automatically better.

I’m not saying that this is a bad project. But “modern” doesn’t tell me anything about why I might want to use it.

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Well, i use it daily, because it has:

- much more sane command line syntax

- automatic formatting and highlighting of json/xml/html

- automatically show received headers

- reverts to unproccessed output when redirected

PROTIP: use 'cat' to type the body manually:

     cat | http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken

You can then start typing the message body. When done, press ctrl+d (EOF) and the request will send and the reply will be printed.

And if you already have the body in a separate file, just pipe it through:

    cat mybody.json | http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken

Don't need cat for the last one, can you redirected input

  http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken < mybody.json

And if you are like me, you use cat because it can go first in the command line... Until I discovered that file redirects can too!

<mybody.json http post https://someapi.com/somenendpoint Authorization:sometoken

OK, we've s/modern//'d the title above.

Can you tell us what you think would be an appropriate 4-6 word tagline for HTTPie?

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