httpbox

httpbox is a Command line HTTP client that aims to be as feature rich as your shell scripting skills can handle.

WARNING: This is me, finally finding the time to learn a bit of Rust and Rust-best-practices. If I'm doing anything wrong, please make sure you yell at me... gently. :)

Releases

In addition to be able to compile it yourself (see "How to build" section below), releases are also provided for:

• Linux GNU 32bit and 64bit
• Mac OS X 32bit and 64bit
• Windows GNU 32bit and 64bit

Just check out /releases for the latest binaries.

TODO features list

• verbosity control
• quiet mode (nothing written on STD_OUT if there are no errors)
• help and version flags
• meta information for --help coming from Cargo.toml (i.e. single source for binary metadata)
• support for all http methods
• default output to stdout
• able to output to a given file
• disable gzip
• provide customer root certificate
• provide headers
• provide User Agent (specialized header)
• provide Cookies (specialized header)
• provide User Agent strings shorthands (i.e. 'macosx-chrome-60' or 'windows-edge')
• multiple concurrent requests to download a file (if supported by target server)
• determine max redirection
• use IPv4 protocol (default)
• use IPv6 protocol
• skip HTTPS certificate verification
• skip download if output file already exists
• proxy configuration
• timeouts (connection / read)
• progress indicator (none, simple, advanced)
• search for mirros (RESEARCH: how do other clients like 'axel' do this?)

How to build

There is nothing special in how to compile httpbox compared to any other Rust binary:

1. Install rustup
2. git clone git@github.com:detro/httpbox.git
3. cd httpbox
4. cargo build or cargo build --release (for the release artifact, duh!)
5. Binary will be in target/(debug|release)/httpbox

License

Apache License 2.0 (official page)