GUI frontend for cURL for testing an API [closed]

Answer 1

I think Hurl is a great candidate for that?

Answer 2

I know this post is a bit old, but Dev HTTP Client for Chrome is by far the best plugin I've found.

Along with providing a nice UI that pretty formats responses (like JSON and XML), it allows you to save any requests. IMHO, the best feature is the ability to set different "contexts" and set variables. For instance, you can have a "production" and "dev" context, each with a "host" variable. Then your request string could be http://${host}/foo.

Answer 3

Also XHR POSTER with Chrome
I would say has a better UI then Poster.

Update
XHR has been giving me problems. DHC by Restlet for Chrome is pretty nice also.

Answer 4

Fiddler is a very good tool. You can see history of requests, supports all HTTP verbs, completes the request with necessary headers (like Content-Length). The feature you are looking for is called "Request Builder".

Answer 5

Try gURL: http://code.google.com/p/gurl/ This is a simple HTTP-request generator, based on curl

Answer 6

In the interest of trying to keep this list up to date, here is an even better, newer Chrome extension: Advanced REST Client