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Asked: 2026-05-26T20:47:01+00:00

I am building a web service for a web application, and I would like

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I am building a web service for a web application, and I would like a simple tool to test this as I am developing. I have tried some firefox plug-ins (Poster, ‘REST Client’), and even though these work fine I have been unable to upload files with them.

Also, I would rather have a command-line tool that I can use to easily write a set of integration tests for this web service and that I can send to consumers of this web service as an example.

I know that curl can work for this but would like a few examples, especially around authentication (using HTTP Basic) and file uploads.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In addition to existing answers it is often desired to format the REST output (typically JSON and XML lacks indentation). Try this:

    $ curl https://api.twitter.com/1/help/configuration.xml  | xmllint --format -
$ curl https://api.twitter.com/1/help/configuration.json | python -mjson.tool

    Tested on Ubuntu 11.0.4/11.10.

    Another issue is the desired content type. Twitter uses .xml/.json extension, but more idiomatic REST would require Accept header:

    $ curl -H "Accept: application/json"
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