On: Command line tools every web dev needs to know

[jameswyse]

Also check out HTTPie: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/ I much prefer it over curl.

$ http GET http://yourmom.ca/

[secoif → jameswyse]

see also burl: https://github.com/visionmedia/burl been good for testing requests against json apis

[dtf → secoif]

see also Curlish: http://packages.python.org/curlish/

[apawloski → jameswyse]

What's the advatage of HTTPie? Friendlier syntax?