This guide reviews five powerful Linux command-line HTTP clients—cURL, HTTPie, Wget, HTTPie-go, and Wuzz—explaining their key features and providing concrete command examples for GET, POST, file downloading, and interactive API testing.
This guide introduces five essential Linux command-line HTTP clients—cURL, HTTPie, Wget, HTTPie-go, and Wuzz—explaining their key features and providing ready-to-use command examples for GET, POST, file downloads, and interactive requests.
An accidental change to make the HTTPie repository private caused GitHub to delete all its 54,000 stars and watches, and despite the author's attempts to restore them, GitHub refused, highlighting risks of repository mismanagement and prompting recommendations for clearer warnings and soft‑delete mechanisms.
The HTTPie project lost over 54,000 GitHub stars after its maintainer accidentally made the repository private, revealing shortcomings in GitHub's confirmation dialogs and backup policies, and prompting recommendations for better UI/UX and soft‑delete mechanisms to protect open‑source projects.
HTTPie, a popular open‑source CLI HTTP client, lost all its 54k GitHub stars after its maintainer accidentally set the main repository to private, prompting a detailed blog post that explains the mishap, GitHub’s response, and recommendations to prevent similar catastrophic repository errors.
The article recounts how the popular open‑source HTTP client HTTPie, which had amassed over 54,000 GitHub stars in ten years, lost all its stars in a single moment when its maintainer mistakenly set the repository to private, highlighting GitHub's irreversible star‑deletion policy and offering lessons for better repository UI/UX design.
This article introduces HTTPie, a Python‑based command‑line HTTP client that offers a simpler syntax, colored output, JSON support, and cross‑platform installation options, and provides detailed usage examples and tips compared with the traditional cURL tool.
This guide explains four practical Linux commands—stat, stat with a custom format, date with the -r option, and ls -lt—to display a file’s last modification timestamp, and also shows how to retrieve remote file dates using the httpie tool.
