CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

This document records all notable changes to HTTPie. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

3.3.0-dev (unreleased)

• Make it possible to unset the User-Agent, Accept-Encoding, and Host request headers. (#1502)

3.2.2 (2022-05-19)

• Fixed compatibility with urllib3 2.0.0. (#1499)

3.2.1 (2022-05-06)

• Improved support for determining auto-streaming when the Content-Type header includes encoding information. (#1383)
• Fixed the display of the crash happening in the secondary process for update checks. (#1388)

3.2.0 (2022-05-05)

• Added a warning for notifying the user about the new updates. (#1336)
• Added support for single binary executables. (#1330)
• Added support for man pages (and auto generation of them from the parser declaration). (#1317)
• Added http --manual for man pages & regular manual with pager. (#1343)
• Added support for session persistence of repeated headers with the same name. (#1335)
• Added support for sending Secure cookies to the localhost (and .local suffixed domains). (#1308)
• Improved UI for the progress bars. (#1324)
• Fixed redundant creation of Content-Length header on OPTIONS requests. (#1310)
• Fixed blocking of warning thread on some use cases. (#1349)
• Changed httpie plugins to the new httpie cli namespace as httpie cli plugins (httpie plugins continues to work as a hidden alias). (#1320)
• Soft deprecated the --history-print. (#1380)

3.1.0 (2022-03-08)

• SECURITY Fixed the vulnerability that caused exposure of cookies on redirects to third party hosts. (#1312)
• Fixed escaping of integer indexes with multiple backslashes in the nested JSON builder. (#1285)
• Fixed displaying of status code without a status message on non-auto themes. (#1300)
• Fixed redundant issuance of stdin detection warnings on some rare cases due to underlying implementation. (#1303)
• Fixed double --quiet so that it will now suppress all python level warnings. (#1271)
• Added support for specifying certificate private key passphrases through --cert-key-pass and prompts. (#946)
• Added httpie cli export-args command for exposing the parser specification for the http/https commands. (#1293)
• Improved regulation of top-level arrays. (#1292)
• Improved UI layout for standalone invocations. (#1296)

3.0.2 (2022-01-24)

What’s new in HTTPie for Terminal 3.0 →

• Fixed usage of httpie when there is a presence of a config with default_options. (#1280)

3.0.1 (2022-01-23)

What’s new in HTTPie for Terminal 3.0 →

• Changed the value shown as time elapsed from time-to-read-headers to total exchange time. (#1277)

3.0.0 (2022-01-21)

What’s new in HTTPie for Terminal 3.0 →

• Dropped support for Python 3.6. (#1177)
• Improved startup time by 40%. (#1211)
• Added support for nested JSON syntax. (#1169)
• Added httpie plugins interface for plugin management. (#566)
• Added support for Bearer authentication via --auth-type=bearer (#1215).
• Added support for quick conversions of pasted URLs into HTTPie calls by adding a space after the protocol name ($ https ://pie.dev → https://pie.dev). (#1195)
• Added support for sending multiple HTTP header lines with the same name. (#130)
• Added support for receiving multiple HTTP headers lines with the same name. (#1207)
• Added support for basic JSON types on --form/--multipart when using JSON only operators (:=/:=@). (#1212)
• Added support for automatically enabling --stream when Content-Type is text/event-stream. (#376)
• Added support for displaying the total elapsed time through --meta/-vv or --print=m. (#243)
• Added new pie-dark/pie-light (and pie) styles that match with HTTPie for Web and Desktop. (#1237)
• Added support for better error handling on DNS failures. (#1248)
• Added support for storing prompted passwords in the local sessions. (#1098)
• Added warnings about the --ignore-stdin, when there is no incoming data from stdin. (#1255)
• Fixed crashing due to broken plugins. (#1204)
• Fixed auto addition of XML declaration to every formatted XML response. (#1156)
• Fixed highlighting when Content-Type specifies charset. (#1242)
• Fixed an unexpected crash when --raw is used with --chunked. (#1253)
• Changed the default Windows theme from fruity to auto. (#1266)

2.6.0 (2021-10-14)

What’s new in HTTPie for Terminal 2.6.0 →

• Added support for formatting & coloring of JSON bodies preceded by non-JSON data (e.g., an XXSI prefix). (#1130)
• Added charset auto-detection when Content-Type doesn’t include it. (#1110, #1168)
• Added --response-charset to allow overriding the response encoding for terminal display purposes. (#1168)
• Added --response-mime to allow overriding the response mime type for coloring and formatting for the terminal. (#1168)
• Added the ability to silence warnings through using -q or --quiet twice (e.g. -qq) (#1175)
• Added installed plugin list to --debug output. (#1165)
• Fixed duplicate keys preservation in JSON data. (#1163)

2.5.0 (2021-09-06)

What’s new in HTTPie for Terminal 2.5.0 →

• Added --raw to allow specifying the raw request body without extra processing as an alternative to stdin. (#534)
• Added support for XML formatting. (#1129)
• Added internal support for file-like object responses to improve adapter plugin support. (#1094)
• Fixed --continue --download with a single byte to be downloaded left. (#1032)
• Fixed --verbose HTTP 307 redirects with streamed request body. (#1088)
• Fixed handling of session files with Cookie: followed by other headers. (#1126)

2.4.0 (2021-02-06)

• Added support for --session cookie expiration based on Set-Cookie: max-age=<n>. (#1029)
• Show a --check-status warning with --quiet as well, not only when the output is redirected. (#1026)
• Fixed upload with --session (#1020).
• Fixed a missing blank line between request and response (#1006).

2.3.0 (2020-10-25)

• Added support for streamed uploads (#201).
• Added support for multipart upload streaming (#684).
• Added support for body-from-file upload streaming (http pie.dev/post @file).
• Added --chunked to enable chunked transfer encoding (#753).
• Added --multipart to allow multipart/form-data encoding for non-file --form requests as well.
• Added support for preserving field order in multipart requests (#903).
• Added --boundary to allow a custom boundary string for multipart/form-data requests.
• Added support for combining cookies specified on the CLI and in a session file (#932).
• Added out of the box SOCKS support with no extra installation (#904).
• Added --quiet, -q flag to enforce silent behaviour.
• Fixed the handling of invalid expires dates in Set-Cookie headers (#963).
• Removed Tox testing entirely (#943).

2.2.0 (2020-06-18)

• Added support for custom content types for uploaded files (#668).
• Added support for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (#920).
• Added support for Set-Cookie-triggered cookie expiration (#853).
• Added --format-options to allow disabling sorting, etc. (#128)
• Added --sorted and --unsorted shortcuts for (un)setting all sorting-related --format-options. (#128)
• Added --ciphers to allow configuring OpenSSL ciphers (#870).
• Added netrc support for auth plugins. Enabled for --auth-type=basic and digest, 3rd parties may opt in (#718, #719, #852, #934).
• Fixed built-in plugins-related circular imports (#925).

2.1.0 (2020-04-18)

• Added --path-as-is to bypass dot segment (/../ or /./) URL squashing (#895).
• Changed the default Accept header value for JSON requests from application/json, */* to application/json, */*;q=0.5 to clearly indicate preference (#488).
• Fixed --form file upload mixed with redirected stdin error handling (#840).

2.0.0 (2020-01-12)

• Removed Python 2.7 support (EOL Jan 2020.
• Added --offline to allow building an HTTP request and printing it but not actually sending it over the network.
• Replaced the old collect-all-then-process handling of HTTP communication with one-by-one processing of each HTTP request or response as they become available. This means that you can see headers immediately, see what is being sent even if the request fails, etc.
• Removed automatic config file creation to avoid concurrency issues.
• Removed the default 30-second connection --timeout limit.
• Removed Python’s default limit of 100 response headers.
• Added --max-headers to allow setting the max header limit.
• Added --compress to allow request body compression.
• Added --ignore-netrc to allow bypassing credentials from .netrc.
• Added https alias command with https:// as the default scheme.
• Added $ALL_PROXY documentation.
• Added type annotations throughout the codebase.
• Added tests/ to the PyPi package for the convenience of downstream package maintainers.
• Fixed an error when stdin was a closed fd.
• Improved --debug output formatting.

1.0.3 (2019-08-26)

• Fixed CVE-2019-10751 — the way the output filename is generated for --download requests without --output resulting in a redirect has been changed to only consider the initial URL as the base for the generated filename, and not the final one. This fixes a potential security issue under the following scenario:

  1. A --download request with no explicit --output is made (e.g., $ http -d example.org/file.txt), instructing httpie to generate the output filename from the Content-Disposition response header, or from the URL if the header is not provided.
  2. The server handling the request has been modified by an attacker and instead of the expected response the URL returns a redirect to another URL, e.g., attacker.example.org/.bash_profile, whose response does not provide a Content-Disposition header (i.e., the base for the generated filename becomes .bash_profile instead of file.txt).
  3. Your current directory doesn’t already contain .bash_profile (i.e., no unique suffix is added to the generated filename).
  4. You don’t notice the potentially unexpected output filename as reported by httpie in the console output (e.g., Downloading 100.00 B to ".bash_profile").

  Reported by Raul Onitza and Giulio Comi.

1.0.2 (2018-11-14)

• Fixed tests for installation with pyOpenSSL.

1.0.1 (2018-11-14)

• Removed external URL calls from tests.

1.0.0 (2018-11-02)

• Added --style=auto which follows the terminal ANSI color styles.
• Added support for selecting TLS 1.3 via --ssl=tls1.3 (available once implemented in upstream libraries).
• Added true/false as valid values for --verify (in addition to yes/no) and the boolean value is case-insensitive.
• Changed the default --style from solarized to auto (on Windows it stays fruity).
• Fixed default headers being incorrectly case-sensitive.
• Removed Python 2.6 support.

0.9.9 (2016-12-08)

• Fixed README.

0.9.8 (2016-12-08)

• Extended auth plugin API.
• Added exit status code 7 for plugin errors.
• Added support for curses-less Python installations.
• Fixed REQUEST_ITEM arg incorrectly being reported as required.
• Improved CTRL-C interrupt handling.
• Added the standard exit status code 130 for keyboard interrupts.

0.9.6 (2016-08-13)

• Added Python 3 as a dependency for Homebrew installations to ensure some of the newer HTTP features work out of the box for macOS users (starting with HTTPie 0.9.4.).
• Added the ability to unset a request header with Header:, and send an empty value with Header;.
• Added --default-scheme <URL_SCHEME> to enable things like $ alias https='http --default-scheme=https.
• Added -I as a shortcut for --ignore-stdin.
• Added fish shell completion (located in extras/httpie-completion.fish in the GitHub repo).
• Updated requests to 2.10.0 so that SOCKS support can be added via pip install requests[socks].
• Changed the default JSON Accept header from application/json to application/json, */*.
• Changed the pre-processing of request HTTP headers so that any leading and trailing whitespace is removed.

0.9.4 (2016-07-01)

• Added Content-Type of files uploaded in multipart/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 incorrect Content-Type
• Added --all to show intermediate responses such as redirects (with --follow)
• Added --history-print, -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 to solarized 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 the handling of Content-Type with multiple +subtype parts
• Removed the XML formatter as the implementation suffered from multiple issues

0.9.3 (2016-01-01)

• Changed the default color --style from solarized to monokai
• 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 to application/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 to pytest
• 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 and field:=@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-* and If-* 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 to GET, or to POST 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

0.1.0 (2012-02-25)

• Initial public release