This document records all notable changes to HTTPie. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
1.0.0-dev (Unreleased)
- Added
Content-Type
of files uploaded inmultipart/form-data
requests - Added
--ssl=<PROTOCOL>
to specify the desired SSL/TLS protocol version to use for HTTPS requests. - Added JSON detection with
--json, -j
to work around incorrectContent-Type
- Added
--all
to show intermediate responses such as redirects (with--follow
) - Added
--print-others, -P WHAT
to specify formatting of intermediate responses - Added
--max-redirects=N
(default 30) - Added
-A
as short name for--auth-type
- Added
-F
as short name for--follow
- Removed the
implicit_content_type
config option (use"default_options": ["--form"]
instead) - Redirected
stdout
doesn't trigger an error anymore when--output FILE
is set - Changed the default
--style
back tosolarized
for better support of light and dark terminals - Improved
--debug
output - Fixed
--session
when used with--download
- Fixed
--download
to trim too long filenames before saving the file - Fixed handling of
Content-Type
with multiple+subtype
parts - Removed XML formatting as the implementation suffered from multiple issues
0.9.3 (2016-01-01)
- Changed the default color
--style
fromsolarized
tomonokai
- Added basic Bash autocomplete support (need to be installed manually)
- Added request details to connection error messages
- Fixed
'requests.packages.urllib3' has no attribute 'disable_warnings'
errors that occurred in some installations - Fixed colors and formatting on Windows
- Fixed
--auth
prompt on Windows
0.9.2 (2015-02-24)
- Fixed compatibility with Requests 2.5.1
- Changed the default JSON
Content-Type
toapplication/json
as UTF-8 is the default JSON encoding
0.9.1 (2015-02-07)
- Added support for Requests transport adapter plugins (see httpie-unixsocket and httpie-http2)
0.9.0 (2015-01-31)
- Added
--cert
and--cert-key
parameters to specify a client side certificate and private key for SSL - Improved unicode support
- Improved terminal color depth detection via
curses
- To make it easier to deal with Windows paths in request items,
\
now only escapes special characters (the ones that are used as key-value separators by HTTPie) - Switched from
unittest
topytest
- Added Python wheel support
- Various test suite improvements
- Added
CONTRIBUTING
- Fixed
User-Agent
overwriting when used within a session - Fixed handling of empty passwords in URL credentials
- Fixed multiple file uploads with the same form field name
- Fixed
--output=/dev/null
on Linux - Miscellaneous bugfixes
0.8.0 (2014-01-25)
- Added
field=@file.txt
andfield:=@file.json
for embedding the contents of text and JSON files into request data - Added curl-style shorthand for localhost
- Fixed request
Host
header value output so that it doesn't contain credentials, if included in the URL
0.7.1 (2013-09-24)
- Added
--ignore-stdin
- Added support for auth plugins
- Improved
--help
output - Improved
Content-Disposition
parsing for--download
mode - Update to Requests 2.0.0
0.6.0 (2013-06-03)
- XML data is now formatted
--session
and--session-read-only
now also accept paths to session files (eg.http --session=/tmp/session.json example.org
)
0.5.1 (2013-05-13)
Content-*
andIf-*
request headers are not stored in sessions anymore as they are request-specific
0.5.0 (2013-04-27)
- Added a download mode via
--download
- Fixes miscellaneous bugs
0.4.1 (2013-02-26)
- Fixed
setup.py
0.4.0 (2013-02-22)
- Added Python 3.3 compatibility
- Added Requests >= v1.0.4 compatibility
- Added support for credentials in URL
- Added
--no-option
for every--option
to be config-friendly - Mutually exclusive arguments can be specified multiple times. The last value is used
0.3.0 (2012-09-21)
- Allow output redirection on Windows
- Added configuration file
- Added persistent session support
- Renamed
--allow-redirects
to--follow
- Improved the usability of
http --help
- Fixed installation on Windows with Python 3
- Fixed colorized output on Windows with Python 3
- CRLF HTTP header field separation in the output
- Added exit status code
2
for timed-out requests - Added the option to separate colorizing and formatting
(
--pretty=all
,--pretty=colors
and--pretty=format
)--ugly
has bee removed in favor of--pretty=none
0.2.7 (2012-08-07)
- Added compatibility with Requests 0.13.6
- Added streamed terminal output.
--stream, -S
can be used to enable streaming also with--pretty
and to ensure a more frequent output flushing - Added support for efficient large file downloads
- Sort headers by name (unless
--pretty=none
) - Response body is fetched only when needed (e.g., not with
--headers
) - Improved content type matching
- Updated Solarized color scheme
- Windows: Added
--output FILE
to store output into a file (piping results in corrupted data on Windows) - Proper handling of binary requests and responses
- Fixed printing of
multipart/form-data
requests - Renamed
--traceback
to--debug
0.2.6 (2012-07-26)
- The short option for
--headers
is now-h
(-t
has been removed, for usage use--help
) - Form data and URL parameters can have multiple fields with the same name (e.g.,``http -f url a=1 a=2``)
- Added
--check-status
to exit with an error on HTTP 3xx, 4xx and 5xx (3, 4, and 5, respectively) - If the output is piped to another program or redirected to a file,
the default behaviour is to only print the response body
(It can still be overwritten via the
--print
flag.) - Improved highlighting of HTTP headers
- Added query string parameters (
param==value
) - Added support for terminal colors under Windows
0.2.5 (2012-07-17)
- Unicode characters in prettified JSON now don't get escaped for improved readability
- --auth now prompts for a password if only a username provided
- Added support for request payloads from a file path with automatic
Content-Type
(http URL @/path
) - Fixed missing query string when displaying the request headers via
--verbose
- Fixed Content-Type for requests with no data
0.2.2 (2012-06-24)
- The
METHOD
positional argument can now be omitted (defaults toGET
, or toPOST
with data) - Fixed --verbose --form
- Added support for Tox
0.2.1 (2012-06-13)
- Added compatibility with
requests-0.12.1
- Dropped custom JSON and HTTP lexers in favor of the ones newly included
in
pygments-1.5
0.2.0 (2012-04-25)
- Added Python 3 support
- Added the ability to print the HTTP request as well as the response
(see
--print
and--verbose
) - Added support for Digest authentication
- Added file upload support
(
http -f POST file_field_name@/path/to/file
) - Improved syntax highlighting for JSON
- Added support for field name escaping
- Many bug fixes
0.1.6 (2012-03-04)
- Fixed
setup.py
0.1.5 (2012-03-04)
- Many improvements and bug fixes
0.1.4 (2012-02-28)
- Many improvements and bug fixes
0.1 (2012-02-25)
- Initial public release