httpclient(1) General Commands Manual httpclient(1)
NAME
httpclient - Shell command for performing HTTP requests using Ruby
httpclient
SYNOPSIS
httpclient <method> <uri> [params]
httpclient
DESCRIPTION
This program is an example/companion to the Ruby httpclient module, but
can be used as a complete standalone HTTP client.
If invoked with a method and an URI, the specified URI will be re-
quested via the method given from its server. The allowed methods are
head, get, post, put, delete, options, propfind, proppatch and trace.
Parameters can be specified as a third parameter and will be delivered
accordingly (i.e. appended to the URI after a ? sign if the method is
get, but as the posted body if the method is post)
Please note that no checks are done as to whether the requested parame-
ters make sense in the context they are specified, they are just sent
as-is.
$ httpclient get https://www.google.co.jp/ q=ruby
Starting from version 2.6.0 httpclient supports command download.
$ httpclient download http://host/path > file
If no parameters are specified, an interactive Ruby (irb) session will
be opened, binding an HTTPClient object as 'self'. You can then call
HTTPClient instance methods like:
$ httpclient
>> get "https://www.google.co.jp/", :q => :ruby
Httpclient will print the `wiredump' of your request (that is, the com-
mands sent to the server via HTTP), then the request's headers, and fi-
nally the result.
OPTIONS
AUTHOR
Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>
NOTES
This manual page was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> for the
Debian project, but can be freely used by others.
This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
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