Base URL feature

[nrocco]

See for an explanation of the feature (and the use case for it) in issue #215

I, on purpose, implemented the feature separately from the curl shorthand syntax.
The only thing missing in the Pull Request is tests.

[nrocco]

Hi there. I am curious if you had chance to look at this PR @jakubroztocil

[jkbrzt]

@nrocco thanks for the pull request. Sorry I haven't gotten around looking at it, but I will do it soon.

[coveralls]

Coverage decreased (-0.14%) to 92.19% when pulling dfc4d31 on nrocco:base-url into ab0d1fd on jakubroztocil:master.

[nrocco]

Hi @jakubroztocil
Have you had the time to look at my PR which introduces the BASE_URL feature?
Does it still fit the vision of httpie?

[coveralls]

Coverage decreased (-0.22%) to 91.94% when pulling 45ff58d on nrocco:base-url into d8b819b on jakubroztocil:master.

[nrocco]

Hi @jakubroztocil just checking in to see if this is still on the roadmap.

[grimborg]

I'm also interested in seeing this feature live.

[heydonovan]

+1

[knxroot]

+1

[nrocco]

Hi @jakubroztocil,

I added unit tests to the pull request. I'd love to see this merged. Is there anything I can help with or need to change for that to happen?

Thanks.

[nrocco]

@jkbrzt Will this ever get merged in?

[jkbrzt]

@nrocco thanks for for the pull request! I think this should be a job for an external wrapper around HTTPie. Have a look at https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt which does an amazing job.

[noahcoad]

+1 for this HTTPIE_BASE_URL feature request

[Morantron]

First of all, I want to say this is an amazing tool!

I think you should reconsider adding this feature @jakubroztocil

Main use case is containers being used more and more for local development, so just having localhost isn't enough.

A tool like http-prompt doesn't fit my workflow because I use a vim+tmux to interact with REPLs. While this approach is kind of niche, the HTTPIE_BASEURL env vars would be a perfectly fine solution. The implementation doesn't seem to add much complexity, and would allow more ways to enjoy httpie.