Generic Open Source REST Client? [closed]

Answer 1

+1 for Curl, but if you want a GUI tool, there are many plugins to different browsers, for Chrome try REST Console: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cokgbflfommojglbmbpenpphppikmonn

Answer 2

No one has mentioned RESTClient for Firefox yet. I prefer it to the Poster addon because it supports basic authentication more easily, and saving/opening complete requests. What it doesn't have- and Poster does have - is the ability to upload files. But if you don't need to do that, I prefer it over the other alternatives I know.

Answer 3

The most generic option would be to simply use Apache HTTP Components. There is nothing special about the request/response formatting like you see in SOAP, so any basic HTTP library will work.