http-client

A very simple desktop app that can send raw http requests

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What it is

A very simple desktop app that can send raw http requests

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Observed mentions: 2016-08-19 05:17:11 UTC to 2016-09-06 06:41:49 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Aug 19	2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-20 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Aug 20	2016-08-20 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 21	2016-08-21 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 22	2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 23	2016-08-23 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 24	2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 25	2016-08-25 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-26 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Aug 26	2016-08-26 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-27 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 27	2016-08-27 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 28	2016-08-28 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 29	2016-08-29 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 30	2016-08-30 00:00:00 UTC	2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 31	2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC	2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 1	2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-09-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2	2016-09-02 00:00:00 UTC	2016-09-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 3	2016-09-03 00:00:00 UTC	2016-09-04 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 4	2016-09-04 00:00:00 UTC	2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 5	2016-09-05 00:00:00 UTC	2016-09-06 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 6	2016-09-06 00:00:00 UTC	2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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aniceguy·Sep 6, 2016

I found this https://github.com/S2-/http-client open source client quite good. It uses chrome in the background to make the requests (you can see it by hitting f12), so proxy settings and all the other stuff works fine.

In Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client

y0ghur7_xxx·Aug 25, 2016

Electron is really awesome. I wrote a rest client¹ a few weeks ago for my personal use, and it worked out really well. I saw that even the auto update² use case is taken care of. Really awesome to make a quick app for someone who is already good in making webapps and needs the power/access/network rights of a desktop app. ¹https://github.com/S2-/http-client ²https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/au...

In Essential Electron

y0ghur7_xxx·Aug 19, 2016Submission

A very simple desktop app that can send raw http requests

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