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This is an Eclipse plugin used to manually construct and execute HTTP requests. It has been used to test REST-based web services.

The plugin creates an Eclipse View allowing the user to compose the appropriate HTTP interface. Current features:

• GET / POST / PUT / DELETE verbs
• Different types of entities supported for POST/PUT
  • Form Post Data
  • Raw Data w/content type
  • File upload support (multipart)
• Complete header control
• Proxy support
• Control for strict enforcement of SSL/TLS
• Return status code description
• Response header display
• Response body display
  • If response identified as binary, hex dump is displayed
  • If response identified as XML, pretty-printing support is provided.

This project is dependent on two other projects defined as repos in GitHub: com.hephaestus.utils and com.hephaestus.invoker.