HTTP Client App Reviews

This app has been a huge help in testing APIs as theyre being developed. Theres only one thing I would change. I would love the option to turn off the username/password popup when the API returns a 401 response. It doesnt seem to be possible to test out error responses for invalid authentication credentials because of the popup. If I cancel the popup, the error response from the server is never actually loaded into the response view. Aside from that, this app is definitely worth $1.99.

Ive found this tool to be an indispensible resource while working with web services and have been using it for years.

Ive used the free version for a number of years, happy to pay $1.99 for something that will hopefully get continued development. If you do any work with web services this tool is indespensable for debugging.

The UI for this app is nicer than some of its competitors on the App Store, but I was unable to get it to POST values to my server, no matter what I tried. RESTed worked much better for me in this regard, and also prints JSON responses in a readable fashion, which helps a lot in development.

It works as described> Would like to see an XML export in future releases.

so worth $2

Its really helpful for testing out my API. Thanks! There was one problem. The "method" drop down box is not populated with any values but GET. I can type in POST and it works fine, its just not pre-populated like the video on your site shows.

I use this very frequently to test/debug web services. Very helpful

I needed this to test continuously running video streams but since i cant stop or pause a request...I cannot see the content coming back. Please add the ability to cancel requests and show what had been downloaded.

The is bait and switch...you cant do anything but GET requests!!!!! the dropdown is there to change it to POST ect, but nothing is in it. It clearly states in the description that it does do it. It even has it in a screanshot, but no joy...only GET. I would ask for a refund of my 2 bucks, but it isnt worth the time. Just buyer beware on this one.

Crashes on basic auth - OSX Lion. Other than that, a convenient tool.

Thanks for the update, but the basic authentication still crashes. Used to work perfectly before Lion—Ive reverted to just using curl to test my web services until basic authentication is fixed in this app. All in all a great program, just needs another update.

Although its an HTTP sniffing client it doesnt work very well with binary files. The load on the mac shoots up such that it becomes unresponsive. A Force-Quit is needed to get the mac back to sanity. I suspect that the program is trying to render the (large) binary file in its window. The reason why I bought this application is that I think that my content type headers are not set correctly so I wanted a quick way to see the type and hence figure out my multi-media file was not working in the browser. The irony is that the tool to display the header is getting confused by the content that the header is meant to describe. I worked aroudn this by creating a short text file with the multi-media file extension to see the headers. It would have been nice if there was an option to not attempt to render the content and just show the headers.

This tool is great for understanding whats going on the wire when writing and debugging an API, however it leaves me scratching my head sometimes. Frequently the app will improperly display responses that are not 200 OK. For example, a connection refused, 204 No Content, and most 400 responses all display as ((no content)), without any description, or more importantly the headers involved. I look forward to a more thorough implementation.

Pretty much worthless for submitting a POST and emulating form submissions.

I use this for debugging RESTful applications which primarily utilize POST methods. Its pretty basic, but it works for me and has been an invaluable debugging tool. You have to generate the POST string yourself, so if you dont like that you may want to look elsewhere. The request (including the URL, method, header value, and body) can be saved to a file, which is handy.

A nice, basic tool for testing GET calls. The screenshot here makes you think it supports other method verbs, but the only thing in the list is GET. Hopefully POST will be added in a future version. Useless to me without that.

Does what it claims and is a handy little tool. If youre looking at testing xml/json API responses, wait to purchase until the response body is formatted. Currently, it is one wall of text, making it a little illegible.

This is a handy little util for debugging web services. Its pretty basic, but so is its price. Interface can use a little work, like prepopulating the request method with GET, POST, PUT, DELETE and making the body text area a little more versatile.

I am an API developer building RESTful services that mobile devices must consume. With that being said, I hoped that I could use HTTP Client and forget my cURL-fu. I was correct, but only if you dont need to do anything at all complicated. The functionality that allows you to add Headers basically doesnt work. You have to double click fields to edit them even though they are text boxes. The list of HTTP methods(PUT/POST/GET/PATCH/DELETE/etc) you can use doesnt actually have anything in it so you have to auto-complete the value. It could render the response much prettier for JSON/XML/etc. When you save a version to distrubute to other people for debugging, you cant edit the content of that file so it is useless if you have anything at all related to authentication in your request. While it has a nice interface, and it gives you 60% of the things you need, Id skip it for the other missing 40% and just deal with cURL. Dont be scared of man(1). Todd should just open source the application and let people who use it work on it to extend it and make it better. The last release was 8 months ago for a tool that could be extremely powerful.