Show HN: HTTPLang – a scripting language for making HTTP requests

> I find the process to be stupidly complicated, and handling cookies is a nightmare.

However this is about as straightforward as it can get with Requests. This is the HTTPLang example:

    set URL http://somesite.com
    set POSTDATA username=myUsername,password=myPassword is this
    do POST /login
    set COOKIE $TMPCOOKIE
    do GET /usercp

    import requests

    url = "http://example.com"
    post_data = { "username": "myUsername", "password": "myPassword is this" }
    response = requests.post(url + "/login", data=post_data)
    cookies = response.cookies
    requests.get(url + "/usercp", cookies=cookies)

The only complicated things I see above are in the HTTPLang version: a variable called "URL" that isn't actually the URL that is being requested, and I guessed at how the cookie functionality worked because it's not at all obvious – I'm assuming that `set COOKIE $TMPCOOKIE` gets the cookie from the previous request and sets it for the subsequent requests.