Generic Open Source REST Client?
Solution 1
Firefox with the Poster add-on will do what you want.
Solution 2
The Java application rest-client http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/ sounds like a good option.
Solution 3
When I have done REST development, curl has been excellent for me. It is flexible enough to be able to handle almost any situation that arises, and once you get the hang of which options to include, it is really easy to use.
Solution 4
Spring has a rather fine RestTemplate class which acts as a REST-style client. Great if you already use Spring, but probably a bit of a bulky library if you don't.
Note: this seems to be a genuine REST client, not just watered-down RPC-over-HTTP which is what passes for REST in most cases.
Solution 5
From a mailing list I'm on: curl works just fine.
Also, Poster for Firefox, and the less-mature Poster for Chrome.
Dean J
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Updated on June 22, 2022Comments
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Dean J almost 2 years
I want a simple client that takes a few parameters (Method, URL, Parameters), makes an HTTP request, and shows me the results that were returned.
A browser obviously can easily send GET and POST requests, but I have no good ideas on DELETE and UPDATE.
Did I miss something in browser 101, or is there a common freeware tool to do this? I've seen other threads that give me Java APIs for a simple client, but that's not what I'm looking for.
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yegor256 about 10 yearstry jcabi-http
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b_erb almost 14 yearsI'm also using this for debugging RESTful stuff.
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Dean J almost 14 years+1; looks like that'll fit the bill.
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Dean J almost 14 yearsLooking for a client, not a client API. :-)
