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Hurl 1.7.0, test your APIs with plain text and curl

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Hi,

We're happy to release a new version of Hurl. Hurl is a command line tool powered by curl, that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format:

# Get home:
GET https://example.org

HTTP/1.1 200
[Captures]
csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content)"

# Do login!
POST https://example.org/login?user=toto&password=1234
X-CSRF-TOKEN: 

HTTP/1.1 302

Hurl can be used to get data like curl, or as an integration testing tool for JSON/XML HTTP apis / HTML content.

In this new version, we've added the following improvements:

  • verbose output: we've added more color to Hurl --verbose output, and also added --very-verbose option to output request and response bodies

  • request options: command-line options such as --location (follow HTTP redirection), --verbose, --insecure etc... can now be applied
    to a particular request with an [Options] sections:

    GET https://example.org
# An options section, each option is optional and applied only to this request...
[Options]
cacert: /etc/cert.pem   # a custom certificate file
compressed: true        # request a compressed response
insecure: true          # allows insecure SSL connections and transfers
location: true          # follow redirection for this request
max-redirs: 10          # maximum number of redirections
verbose: true           # allow verbose output
very-verbose: true      # allow more verbose output

  • using Hurl with node projects: Hurk is now available on npm to be easily integrated in various JavaScript project. Hurl on npm is a thin JavaScript wrapper around the native Rust binary.

  • support for XML namespaces in XPath

  • other various improvements and bug fixes,

More information:

We'll be happy to have feedbacks on Hurl !