Main features
Installation
- Universal
  - PyPI
- macOS
  - Homebrew
  - MacPorts
- Windows
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- Linux
  - Debian and Ubuntu
  - Fedora
  - CentOS and RHEL
  - Single binary executables
  - Snapcraft (Linux)
  - Linuxbrew
  - Arch Linux
- FreeBSD
  - FreshPorts
- Unstable version
Usage
- Examples
HTTP method
- Optional GET and POST
Request URL
- Querystring parameters
- URL shortcuts for localhost
- Other default schemes
- --path-as-is
Request items
- File based separators
- Escaping rules
JSON
- Default behavior
- Explicit JSON
- Non-string JSON fields
- Nested JSON
  - Introduction
  - Advanced usage
    - Top level arrays
    - Escaping behavior
    - Guiding syntax errors
    - Type safety
- Raw JSON
Forms
- Regular forms
- File upload forms
HTTP headers
- Default request headers
- Reading headers from a file
- Empty headers and header un-setting
- Multiple header values with the same name
- Limiting response headers
Offline mode
Cookies
Authentication
- Basic auth
- Digest auth
- Bearer auth
- Password prompt
- Empty password
- .netrc
- Auth plugins
HTTP redirects
- Follow Location
- Showing intermediary redirect responses
- Limiting maximum redirects followed
Proxies
- Environment variables
- SOCKS
HTTPS
- Server SSL certificate verification
- Custom CA bundle
- Client side SSL certificate
- SSL version
- SSL ciphers
Output options
- What parts of the HTTP exchange should be printed
  - Response meta
- Verbose output
  - Extra verbose output
- Quiet output
- Update warnings
- Viewing intermediary requests/responses
- Conditional body download
Raw request body
- Redirected Input
- Request data via --raw
- Request data from a filename
Chunked transfer encoding
Compressed request body
Terminal output
- Colors and formatting
- Format options
- Redirected output
- Binary data
- Display encoding
Download mode
- Downloaded filename
- Piping while downloading
- Resuming downloads
- Other notes
Streamed responses
- Disabling buffering
- Example use cases
Sessions
- Named sessions
- Anonymous sessions
- Readonly session
- Host-based cookie policy
- Cookie storage behavior
- Upgrading sessions
  - Session upgrade options
Config
- Config file directory
- Configurable options
  - default_options
  - plugins_dir
- Un-setting previously specified options
Scripting
- Best practices
Plugin manager
- httpie cli
  - httpie cli check-updates
  - httpie cli export-args
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    - httpie cli plugins install
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    - httpie cli plugins uninstall
Meta
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HTTPie CLI docs

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