Generic Open Source REST Client? [closed]

Answer 1

When I have done REST development, curl has been excellent for me. It is flexible enough to be able to handle almost any situation that arises, and once you get the hang of which options to include, it is really easy to use.

Answer 2

On Github there is a command line tool called http-console, which looks nice.

Link: http://github.com/cloudhead/http-console

Answer 3

From a mailing list I'm on: curl works just fine.

Also, Poster for Firefox, and the less-mature Poster for Chrome.

Answer 4

Spring has a rather fine RestTemplate class which acts as a REST-style client. Great if you already use Spring, but probably a bit of a bulky library if you don't.

Note: this seems to be a genuine REST client, not just watered-down RPC-over-HTTP which is what passes for REST in most cases.

Answer 5

Firefox with the Poster add-on will do what you want.

Answer 6

The Java application rest-client http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/ sounds like a good option.