Hurl
Dev tools
http testing cli
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
8 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for API smoke tests and CI integration tests
From 3 comments
Looks like something we could actually use for some API smoke tests. I'll bookmark it, thank you!
maverwa on HNA lot of people use tools like hurl for integration and smoke tests during CI runs. The extension looks nice, but it is limited in that way.
certifiedloud on HNI work in the same team as the two authors and we use it on a pretty large project : an online shop, and a few other smaller ones. We run hurl tests on every branch of our…
jayteee on HN
Plain text format is simple and clean
From 2 comments
This is looking like what Postman should have been.
ironmagma on HNWe're releasing a new version of Hurl, a simple HTTP cli tool built on top of libcurl and Rust. Hurl allows running HTTP requests defined in a plain text format. It can be used…
jicea on HN
Single binary and Windows support make installation easy
From 1 comment
As a matter of fact, our first implementation of Hurl was written in Python. We switch to Rust because: - we're a 30 developper team with Linux, Windows and macOs computers.…
jicea on HN
Objections
No support for running requests concurrently yet
From 2 comments
The first feature I look for in tools like this is the ability to run requests concurrently. Of course some requests depend on others, but there are often a lot of requests that…
certifiedloud on HNThis is not possible yet. We have related issues: - https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/issues/87 - https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/issues/88 Running several Hurl…
fabricereix on HN
Installing requires a Rust compiler for some users
From 1 comment
This is seriously cool, and I would use it frequently... if only there was a rust compiler in my computer. Since it is a somewhat "thin" wrapper around curl, are there deep…
enriquto on HN
Requests
A VS Code extension for Hurl
From 1 comment
So what we really need is a nice VS Code extension for Hurl.
leetrout on HN
Concurrent request execution
From 1 comment
The first feature I look for in tools like this is the ability to run requests concurrently. Of course some requests depend on others, but there are often a lot of requests that…
certifiedloud on HN
Chaining values between requests
From 1 comment
This looks really cool! Very promising! Is it possible to chain a value from a response to the next request? This would be useful for testing. My understand is that between the…
woile on HN
Questions
How to pronounce the name and whether a silent H is used
From 1 comment
I'm actually curious about the name. OP says "an Hurl request" above. So it's pronounced with a silent "H"? Like "An hour of time?"
ReactiveJelly on HN
Whether the project is related to the hurl.it service
From 2 comments
Does no one remember hurl.it? It's a web-based http request tool that has already been using the name Hurl since 2009: https://www.hurlit.com/about/ ... originally co-created by…
evanelias on HNInteresting; is that someone rehosting the original app? https://hurl.it/ got bought at some point.
ceejayoz on HN
Alternatives named
REST Client extension for VS Code
From 1 comment
The Hurl web app was great and has saved me a ton of time in the past. Recently I've replaced Hurl and Postman with the REST Client extension for VS Code.…
leetrout on HN
IntelliJ HTTP client
From 1 comment
When I saw this I was thinking of IntelliJ's HTTP client[1]. I hope that a standardised format can come out of this. [1]…
tikkabhuna on HN
dot-http
From 1 comment
There's also dot-http[0] which aims to provide a similar interface to what IntelliJ's requests feature has. I've used it a few times. It's a shame development has died, so…
gizdan on HN
Postman
From 1 comment
This is looking like what Postman should have been.
ironmagma on HN
restclient.el
From 1 comment
Reminds me of https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el. Nice to see an editor-agnostic version of this idea, great job!
osener on HN