http - Yet another HTTP client

Author: Mario Rodas marsam@users.noreply.github.com
Version: 0.0.1

http.el provides an easy way to interact with the HTTP protocol.

Usage

Create a file with the following contents, and set http-mode as major mode.

# -*- http -*-

POST https://httpbin.org/post?val=key
User-Agent: Emacs24
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "foo": "bar"
}

Move the cursor somewhere within the description of the http request and execute M-x http-process or press C-c C-c, if everything is went well should show an buffer when the response of the http request:

More examples are included in file misc/example.txt

Customization

Fontify response

If you want to use a custom mode for the fontification of the response buffer with content-type equal to http-content-type-mode-alist. For example, to use json-mode for responses with content-type "application/json":

    (add-to-list 'http-content-type-mode-alist
                 '("application/json" . json-mode))

Prettify response

If you want to use a custom function to prettify the response body you need to add it to http-pretty-callback-alist, the function is called without arguments. Examples:

• To use json-reformat in responses with content-type "application/json":

    (require 'json-reformat)
  
    (defun my/pretty-json-buffer ()
      (json-reformat-region (point-min) (point-max)))
  
    (add-to-list 'http-pretty-callback-alist
                 '("application/json" . my/pretty-json-buffer))
  

• To display the rendered html in responses with content-type "text/html":

    (require 'shr)
  
    (defun my/http-display-html ()
      (shr-render-region (point-min) (point-max)))
  
    (add-to-list 'http-pretty-callback-alist
                 '("text/html" . my/http-display-html))
  

Related projects

• httprepl.el: An HTTP REPL for Emacs.

• restclient.el: HTTP REST client tool for Emacs. You can use both projects indistinctly, the main differences between both are:

  	restclient.el	http.el
  backend	url.el	request.el
  variables	yes	no

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