GUI frontend for cURL for testing an API

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AdamTheHutt picture AdamTheHutt · Mar 2, 2009 · Viewed 84.8k times · Source

I'm (manually) testing a RESTful API that makes full use of GET/POST/PUT/DELETE methods. Rather than using cURL on the command line to quickly test different input options, it would be handy if there were a windows GUI application to make this easier. Does anything like that exist?

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vladr picture vladr · Mar 2, 2009

Use Poster with Firefox.

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