Introduction to Hurl: Command-Line Tool for HTTP Requests
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Summary
Hurl is a versatile command-line tool for running and testing HTTP requests in a simple plain text format. It allows chaining requests, capturing values, and evaluating queries on headers and body responses. Hurl is suitable for fetching data and testing HTTP sessions, making it easy to work with various types of APIs like REST, SOAP, GraphQL, XML, and JSON.
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· 3 pulledHurl is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions.
Hurl makes it easy to work with HTML content, REST / SOAP / GraphQL APIs, or any other XML / JSON based APIs.
Chaining multiple requests is easy.
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