htty/htty

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1770 stars · 64 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

htty is an interactive console application for making HTTP requests to web servers, written in Ruby. It provides a tab-completed terminal session for building requests, sending them, and inspecting responses, with session history and scripting support.

Use cases

• explore and test REST APIs from the terminal
• interactively debug HTTP requests and responses
• learn how HTTP methods, headers, and cookies work
• test endpoints with GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH requests
• script HTTP request sequences via stdin
• inspect response headers, cookies, and bodies in a REPL

When to choose

• you want an interactive, exploratory HTTP client instead of one-off curl commands
• you need tab completion, session history, and transcripts while testing an API
• you want a learning tool for understanding HTTP semantics

When to avoid

• you need automated HTTP requests in code - use a library or curl instead
• you need OAuth or advanced auth beyond HTTP Basic
• you need a maintained tool - the latest release is from 2021 and it targets older Ruby versions

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

http-client cli developer-tools developer-tools apis web-development cli ruby cross-platform http-debugging rest-client interactive-terminal api-exploration tty command-line macos linux

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