Graphical HTTP client for windows

Question

Hi,

I am looking for a Windows graphical utility for performing HTTP operations.

For example, I want to be able to say things like:

POST to http://example.org/test/service With a POST body: "Data goes here"

Does anyone know a good piece of software for doing this?

Answer 1

http://www.ieinspector.com/httpanalyzer/

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B134A806-D50E-4664-8348-DA5C17129210&displaylang=en

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9780/

http://soft-net.net/SendHTTPTool.aspx

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/966/

Answer 2

Have you looked at Fiddler 2 from Microsoft?

http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

Allows you to generate most types of request for testing, including POST. It also supports capturing HTTP requests made by other applications and reusing those for testing.

Answer 3

Honestly, for simplistic stuff like that I typically whip up a quick HTML form in a local file and load that up in a browser.

Answer 4

I like rest-client a lot for the purposes you described. It's a Java application to test REST-based web services.

Answer 5

RestClient is my favorite. It's Java based. I think it should meet your needs quite nicely. I particularly like the Auth suppport.

http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/