After a bit of googling, I have yet to find a command-line tool that simply handles HTTP requests. There’s wget for retrieving files, curl for PUT and POST, but what to use for DELETE (or other HTTP methods)? For that matter, I’d prefer to have a single tool, rather than 2 or 3.

I wrote a simple python script a while back — the last time I couldn’t find such a tool — and so now that I need to use it again, it seems like a good time to polish it up and release it (here). Not before chopping out a bunch of specific hacks that really need tidying up before being included in released code, of course.

So if you need a basic tool for handling HTTP requests (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) you may find it useful… rather than having to write the few lines of code yourself.