CHANGELOG.rst

Change Log

This document records all notable changes to HTTPie. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

1.0.0-dev (unreleased)

• Removed Python 2.6 support.
• --verify now accepts true/false in addition to yes/no and the boolean value is case-insensitive.

0.9.8 (2016-12-08)

• Extended auth plugin API.
• Added exit status code 7 for plugin errors.
• Added support for curses-less Python installations.
• Fixed REQUEST_ITEM arg incorrectly being reported as required.
• Improved CTRL-C interrupt handling.
• Added the standard exit status code 130 for keyboard interrupts.

0.9.6 (2016-08-13)

• Added Python 3 as a dependency for Homebrew installations to ensure some of the newer HTTP features work out of the box for macOS users (starting with HTTPie 0.9.4.).
• Added the ability to unset a request header with Header:, and send an empty value with Header;.
• Added --default-scheme <URL_SCHEME> to enable things like $ alias https='http --default-scheme=https.
• Added -I as a shortcut for --ignore-stdin.
• Added fish shell completion (located in extras/httpie-completion.fish in the Github repo).
• Updated requests to 2.10.0 so that SOCKS support can be added via pip install requests[socks].
• Changed the default JSON Accept header from application/json to application/json, */*.
• Changed the pre-processing of request HTTP headers so that any leading and trailing whitespace is removed.

0.9.4 (2016-07-01)

• Added Content-Type of files uploaded in multipart/form-data requests
• Added --ssl=<PROTOCOL> to specify the desired SSL/TLS protocol version to use for HTTPS requests.
• Added JSON detection with --json, -j to work around incorrect Content-Type
• Added --all to show intermediate responses such as redirects (with --follow)
• Added --history-print, -P WHAT to specify formatting of intermediate responses
• Added --max-redirects=N (default 30)
• Added -A as short name for --auth-type
• Added -F as short name for --follow
• Removed the implicit_content_type config option (use "default_options": ["--form"] instead)
• Redirected stdout doesn't trigger an error anymore when --output FILE is set
• Changed the default --style back to solarized for better support of light and dark terminals
• Improved --debug output
• Fixed --session when used with --download
• Fixed --download to trim too long filenames before saving the file
• Fixed the handling of Content-Type with multiple +subtype parts
• Removed the XML formatter as the implementation suffered from multiple issues

0.9.3 (2016-01-01)

• Changed the default color --style from solarized to monokai
• Added basic Bash autocomplete support (need to be installed manually)
• Added request details to connection error messages
• Fixed 'requests.packages.urllib3' has no attribute 'disable_warnings' errors that occurred in some installations
• Fixed colors and formatting on Windows
• Fixed --auth prompt on Windows

0.9.2 (2015-02-24)

• Fixed compatibility with Requests 2.5.1
• Changed the default JSON Content-Type to application/json as UTF-8 is the default JSON encoding

0.9.1 (2015-02-07)

• Added support for Requests transport adapter plugins (see httpie-unixsocket and httpie-http2)

0.9.0 (2015-01-31)

• Added --cert and --cert-key parameters to specify a client side certificate and private key for SSL
• Improved unicode support
• Improved terminal color depth detection via curses
• To make it easier to deal with Windows paths in request items, \ now only escapes special characters (the ones that are used as key-value separators by HTTPie)
• Switched from unittest to pytest
• Added Python wheel support
• Various test suite improvements
• Added CONTRIBUTING
• Fixed User-Agent overwriting when used within a session
• Fixed handling of empty passwords in URL credentials
• Fixed multiple file uploads with the same form field name
• Fixed --output=/dev/null on Linux
• Miscellaneous bugfixes

0.8.0 (2014-01-25)

• Added [email protected] and field:[email protected] for embedding the contents of text and JSON files into request data
• Added curl-style shorthand for localhost
• Fixed request Host header value output so that it doesn't contain credentials, if included in the URL

0.7.1 (2013-09-24)

• Added --ignore-stdin
• Added support for auth plugins
• Improved --help output
• Improved Content-Disposition parsing for --download mode
• Update to Requests 2.0.0

0.6.0 (2013-06-03)

• XML data is now formatted
• --session and --session-read-only now also accept paths to session files (eg. http --session=/tmp/session.json example.org)

0.5.1 (2013-05-13)

• Content-* and If-* request headers are not stored in sessions anymore as they are request-specific

0.5.0 (2013-04-27)

• Added a download mode via --download
• Fixes miscellaneous bugs

0.4.1 (2013-02-26)

• Fixed setup.py

0.4.0 (2013-02-22)

• Added Python 3.3 compatibility
• Added Requests >= v1.0.4 compatibility
• Added support for credentials in URL
• Added --no-option for every --option to be config-friendly
• Mutually exclusive arguments can be specified multiple times. The last value is used

0.3.0 (2012-09-21)

• Allow output redirection on Windows
• Added configuration file
• Added persistent session support
• Renamed --allow-redirects to --follow
• Improved the usability of http --help
• Fixed installation on Windows with Python 3
• Fixed colorized output on Windows with Python 3
• CRLF HTTP header field separation in the output
• Added exit status code 2 for timed-out requests
• Added the option to separate colorizing and formatting (--pretty=all, --pretty=colors and --pretty=format) --ugly has bee removed in favor of --pretty=none

0.2.7 (2012-08-07)

• Added compatibility with Requests 0.13.6
• Added streamed terminal output. --stream, -S can be used to enable streaming also with --pretty and to ensure a more frequent output flushing
• Added support for efficient large file downloads
• Sort headers by name (unless --pretty=none)
• Response body is fetched only when needed (e.g., not with --headers)
• Improved content type matching
• Updated Solarized color scheme
• Windows: Added --output FILE to store output into a file (piping results in corrupted data on Windows)
• Proper handling of binary requests and responses
• Fixed printing of multipart/form-data requests
• Renamed --traceback to --debug

0.2.6 (2012-07-26)

• The short option for --headers is now -h (-t has been removed, for usage use --help)
• Form data and URL parameters can have multiple fields with the same name (e.g.,``http -f url a=1 a=2``)
• Added --check-status to exit with an error on HTTP 3xx, 4xx and 5xx (3, 4, and 5, respectively)
• If the output is piped to another program or redirected to a file, the default behaviour is to only print the response body (It can still be overwritten via the --print flag.)
• Improved highlighting of HTTP headers
• Added query string parameters (param==value)
• Added support for terminal colors under Windows

0.2.5 (2012-07-17)

• Unicode characters in prettified JSON now don't get escaped for improved readability
• --auth now prompts for a password if only a username provided
• Added support for request payloads from a file path with automatic Content-Type (http URL @/path)
• Fixed missing query string when displaying the request headers via --verbose
• Fixed Content-Type for requests with no data

0.2.2 (2012-06-24)

• The METHOD positional argument can now be omitted (defaults to GET, or to POST with data)
• Fixed --verbose --form
• Added support for Tox

0.2.1 (2012-06-13)

• Added compatibility with requests-0.12.1
• Dropped custom JSON and HTTP lexers in favor of the ones newly included in pygments-1.5

0.2.0 (2012-04-25)

• Added Python 3 support
• Added the ability to print the HTTP request as well as the response (see --print and --verbose)
• Added support for Digest authentication
• Added file upload support (http -f POST file_field_name@/path/to/file)
• Improved syntax highlighting for JSON
• Added support for field name escaping
• Many bug fixes

0.1.6 (2012-03-04)

• Fixed setup.py

0.1.5 (2012-03-04)

• Many improvements and bug fixes

0.1.4 (2012-02-28)

• Many improvements and bug fixes

0.1 (2012-02-25)

• Initial public release