HTTPie, an easy to use cURL replacement

HTTPie is a command line HTTP client whose goal is to make CLI interaction with web services as human-friendly as possible. It provides a simple http command that allows for sending arbitrary HTTP requests with a simple and natural syntax, and displays colorised responses. HTTPie can be used for testing, debugging, and generally interacting with HTTP servers.

http PUT example.org/people/1 X-API-Token:123 name=John

Main Features

• Expressive and intuitive arguments syntax
• Formatted and colorized terminal output
• Built-in JSON support
• Forms and file uploads
• HTTPS, proxies, and authentication
• Arbitrary request data
• Custom headers
• Python 2.6 and Python 3 support
• Linux, Mac OS X and Windows support
• Documentation
• Test coverage

http://httpie.org/