eXtended HTTP — HTTP requests as template files

$ echo "GET http://example.com/ HTTP/1.1" > example.hxxp
$ hxxp example.hxxp

Or even

$ echo "GET http://example.com/ HTTP/1.1" | hxxp -

For more examples look into the examples directory in source code.

Generally speaking, hxxp files contain plain HTTP (with \n instead of \r\n and a full host URI instead of path) and can be extended with shell interpolation. If you know HTTP, you can use hxxp without any learning curve.

• API testing
• Scripting HTTP requests

• insomnia, hoppscotch, postman, bruno, etc. — hxxp does not require an account to work, hxxp does not provide laggy UI, hxxp works with any headers (even with accept-encoding), can be interpolated with commands, can be synced with plain git, hxxp is not bloated, provides no cloud version and does not require to click the menus to setup a header, hxxp does not provide any cryptic DSL to describe HTTP request.
• curl — hxxp is merely a limited interface to libcurl
• hurl — hxxp has less functionality and doesn't provide a testing framework with testing DSL
• httpyac — hxxp does not provide strange DSL, hxxp works only with HTTP and is much more lightweight