Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the terminal
by hassy on Hacker News.
Hiya HN! Just released Artillery Probe – a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the CLI. Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-cases, plus a couple of extra features. Would love for you to try it and give some feedback! https://ift.tt/MAoB6V3 and: npm install artillery@latest
What does it do? – First of all, it’s a HTTP client! It does all the usual stuff you’d expect from a HTTP client… HTTP methods, request bodies, custom headers, forms, Basic Auth etc. – Got some JSON or XML back? It’ll pretty-print it, and syntax highlight it for you. – It’ll show you request waterfalls like this one: (inspired by httpstat) DNS Lookup | TCP Connection | SSL Handshake | Time to First Byte | Content Transfer
56ms | 14ms | 19ms | 181ms | 88ms |
| | | | |
56ms | | | |
70ms | | |
89ms | |
270ms |
total:358ms
– JSON responses can be queried and sliced and diced with JMESPath (same syntax as AWS CLI) – no need to reach for jq. XML & HTML may be queried with a jQuery-like syntax too. – You can set expectations on the response, e.g. have the CLI check that the response is a 200, or that a certain header is set, and exit with non-zero code if not. Super handy for quick acceptance testing. We’ve got lots of ideas for improvements, but would love to hear what you think!
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