xh

xh is a command-line HTTP client for calling APIs and other HTTP services with HTTPie-style request syntax. It covers request construction, response inspection, downloads, sessions, and curl translation from one binary.

• Send HTTP requests with methods, headers, query params, JSON or form fields, multipart uploads, stdin or file bodies, auth, proxies, TLS controls, HTTP version selection, and Unix sockets.
• Inspect response headers, body, or metadata separately, follow redirects, build requests offline before sending them, and translate an xh command into curl when needed.
• Download response bodies with resume support and reuse cookies, auth, and custom headers across repeated API calls with session files.

• The command surface is mostly flag-driven and non-interactive, and xh fails on unexpected HTTP status codes by default, which makes inspect or change or verify loops safer in unattended runs.
• Output control is script-friendly through --print, --body, --headers, --meta, --offline, and --ignore-stdin, but machine-readability is still limited because there is no dedicated structured output mode.
• Best used as a generic HTTP primitive when an agent already knows the target API and wants direct shell access rather than a higher-level service CLI.

• Output formatting changes when stdout is a TTY, so automation should usually pin flags like --pretty=none, --print, and --ignore-stdin for deterministic behavior.
• Some auth paths can prompt for missing credentials, and session files persist cookies and auth material on disk.