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hurl
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Orange-OpenSource / hurl

hurl

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

19Distinct people
37Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
19.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:01:28 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year37 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-10-05 13:27:15 UTC to 2025-06-20 15:35:21 UTC.

0510152021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 1 submissions, 11 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC12111
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211

What Hacker News says

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This is not possible yet. We have related issues: - https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/issues/87 - https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/issues/88 Running several Hurl files concurrently (and independently) is clear and we will probably add in the next few months. Running requests concurrently in the same Hurl file will be more complicated. The Hurl language has to describe a clear semantic about it.
In Show HN: Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust
https://hurl.dev/docs/installation.html > Precompiled binary is available at hurl-1.3.1-x86_64-linux.tar.gz https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/releases/download/... > For Debian / Ubuntu, Hurl can be installed using a binary .deb file provided in each Hurl release. > hurl-bin package for Arch Linux and derived distros. > An installer is available at hurl-1.3.1-win64-installer.exe Just glancing at a few files, main.rs is already over 500 lines, which means shell would be impractical. C is a very difficult language to learn and to use correctly, so in the long-term there will be more Rust (and Go, and Python) programmers than C programmers. I think that is a good reason for projects to choose other languages. In fact, one might equally ask why it wasn't written in Python - Python is safer than C, far easier, and performance doesn't s
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ound critical for an HTTP debugger meant to be used interactively by a human. We're probably already far past the point of "There are more competent Python programmers than competent C programmers."
In Show HN: Hurl – Run and test HTTP requests with plain text, curl and Rust

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