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Reminds me of http://hurl.it :)

Also, I've made a service that does the opposite: http://httpbin.org

Wow, httpbin is awesome!

httpbin. sweet.

httpbin looks awesome. You should give that its own thread!

I've been using httpbin.org for a week or so now - really like it

REST Console for Chrome does GET/POST/PUT params. https://github.com/codeinchaos/rest-console

This is nice, though - surprised it fills a gap in functionality with how simple it is, but it does. http://hurl.it/ currently doesn't have a way of entering individual params. Apigee console doesn't either. It also takes a click or two to get to a generic API console. https://apigee.com/console/

BTW I like how if you remove the middle two letters and each letter at the end of httpposttool you get groups of two of the same letter: ttppttoo.

Neat service. Anyone know of a browser plugin/extension though that will let me do this from the context of an existing loaded page? I've wanted that for a while for testing local web dev stuff.

Not exactly a plugin but Fiddler ( http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ )'s request builder can do this and you can drag & drop existing requests to request builder and modify as you like.

Request maker works well on chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kajfghlhfkcocafkcj...

I'm looking for the opposite -- something that will accept HTTP requests, record them and let me view the log on a page. My use case is debugging callbacks (notification pushes) from APIs.

http://httpbin.org doesn't log, but it responds with the request info.

Indeed, that makes it useless when the service I want to debug is not one written by me; let's say Github or Notifio.

I could write a service like that in 5 minutes, just wondering it one exists, so I don't have to. :-)

If the requests is a POST, http://postbin.org will suit you perfectly :)

Thanks, that looks useful.

Why so bitter?

Also httpbin is open source. You can clone it and add your own features. https://github.com/kennethreitz/httpbin

I don't see how you can interpret my comment as being bitter (there's a smileyface there, for God's sake). I merely point out that httpbin is useless for my stated use case -- there is nothing there implying that it's useless for all use cases.

Sure, I could patch httpbin. But I was explicitly asking whether the tool I described exists so I don't need to write the code myself.

http://www.postbin.org is what you want. I used it to debug my Recurly notification pushes and it made things much easier.

Nice! I like the name (2lazy2curl) and background, but am not totally sold on the font choice. I suspect it will grow on me though.

Nit-picky thing: consistent capitalization (2lazy2curl or 2Lazy2Curl) in the title bar and on the page.

Good nit-picky catch on the capitalization. I agree, the font is unconventional. I might switch it to something more conventional, but it definitely does fit the theme.

Nice--how does this compare to hurl.it?

Its more streamlined that hurl.it (which is a great product), but also less powerful. The use case I'm going for is very basic: quick and dirty POST endpoint testing. URL, query params, then go.

Nice but I would rather stay on your page and have it show me what I sent and what I got back

Hilarious visual design!

another slick alternative https://apigee.com/console/ has oauth support and some popular api endpoints already setup

Pretty cool - a nice plus would be the ability to post files.

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