Graphical HTTP client for windows

windows http rest client
user169877 picture user169877 · May 14, 2010 · Viewed 108.8k times · Source

I am looking for a Windows graphical utility for performing HTTP operations.

For example, I want to be able to say things like:

POST to http://example.org/test/service With a POST body: "Data goes here"

Does anyone know a good piece of software for doing this?

Answer

Stephen Swensen picture Stephen Swensen · Dec 8, 2012

I too have been frustrated by the lack of good graphical http clients available for Windows. So over the past couple years I've been developing one myself: I'm Only Resting, "a feature-rich WinForms-based HTTP client." It's open source (Apache License, Version 2.0) with freely available downloads.

It currently has fairly complete coverage of HTTP features except for file uploads, and it provides a very good user interface with great request and response management.

Here's a screenshot:

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(source: swensensoftware.com)

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