httpclient(1) General Commands Manual httpclient(1)
NAME
httpclient - Shell command for performing HTTP requests using Ruby http-
client
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 requested
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 un-
der the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your op-
tion) any later version.
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