httpie-go

httpie-go (ht) is a user-friendly HTTP client CLI. Requests can be issued with fewer types compared to curl. Responses are displayed with syntax highlighting.

httpie-go is a clone of httpie. Since httpie-go is written in Go, it is a single binary and does not require a heavy runtime.

Examples

This example sends a GET request to http://httpbin.org/get.

$ ht GET httpbin.org/get

The second example sends a POST request with JSON body {"hello": "world", "foo": "bar"}.

$ ht POST httpbin.org/post hello=world foo=bar

You can see the request that is being sent with -v option.

$ ht -v POST httpbin.org/post hello=world foo=bar

Request HTTP headers can be specified in the form of key:value.

$ ht -v POST httpbin.org/post X-Foo:foobar

Disable TLS verification.

$ ht --verify=no https://httpbin.org/get

Download a file.

$ ht --download <any url you want>

Documents

Although httpie-go does not currently have documents, you can refer to the original httpie's documentation since httpie-go is a clone of httpie. Note that some minor options are yet to be implemented in httpie-go.

How to build

make

For non-standard Linux system like Android termux, use following method to avoid the DNS issue.

make build-termux

How build tags work.

We use build tags or build constraints to separate build process for different platforms. Build tags are found at the top of the file as a comment. The file will be included only if the tag is present in the build command. eg:

//go:build cli

build command using wasm tag

GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm go build -tags=wasm  -o static/main.wasm

build command using cli tag

go build -tags=cli  -o static/main.wasm

Note : The first line of the file should be followed by an empty line to make it a valid build tag statement.

If there is an ! mark then it means the not operation on the build tags.

//go:build !windows

This will exclude the file if a windows build tag is used.(eg: while building for unix based systems)

Here we have wasm and cli build tags to switch between wasm and cli builds.

//+build is the older syntax for build tags, it's still recognized in Go. You can convert these statements into new syntax using gofmt command.

platform related build tags.

Example:

//go:build (linux && 386) || (darwin && !cgo)

This means the file will be included if the target is either "linux" with "386" architecture or "darwin" without "cgo".

Environment Variables

• GOOS: Sets the target operating system.
• GOARCH: Sets the target architecture.

During a build, the following tags are considered:

• Target OS: Defined by runtime.GOOS (set by GOOS).
• Target Architecture: Defined by runtime.GOARCH (set by GOARCH).
• Architecture Features: For example, "amd64.v2".
• "unix": If GOOS is a Unix-like system.
• Compiler: Either "gc" or "gccgo".
• "cgo": If cgo is supported (set by CGO_ENABLED).
• Go Version: Tags like "go1.1", "go1.12", etc.
• Custom Tags: Provided by the -tags flag.

Implicit Build Constraints

Files can have implicit build constraints based on their names:

• *_GOOS
• *_GOARCH
• *_GOOS_GOARCH

For example, source_windows_amd64.go is implicitly constrained to GOOS=windows and GOARCH=amd64.

Special Cases

• GOOS=android: Matches tags and files for both GOOS=linux and android.
• GOOS=illumos: Matches tags and files for both GOOS=solaris and illumos.
• GOOS=ios: Matches tags and files for both GOOS=darwin and ios.

This ensures compatibility and proper inclusion of files for these specific platforms.

By using these build tags and environment variables, you can control the inclusion of files in your Go package based on the target platform.