CHANGELOG.md

[0.22.0] - 2024-04-13

Features

• Support http2-prior-knowledge, see #356 (@zuisong)
• Directly bind to interface name on supported platforms, see #359 (@ducaale)
• Enable stream when content-type is text/event-stream, see #360 (@zuisong)
• Decode utf-8 encoded string when formatting non-streaming JSON response, see #361 (@zuisong)

Other

• Upgrade to hyper v1, see #357 (@zuisong)
• Use serde-transcode to optimize JSON formatting, see #362 (@blyxxyz)

[0.21.0] - 2024-01-28

Features

• Display remote address in metadata when -vv or --meta flag is used, see #348 (@zuisong)

Other

• Default XH_CONFIG_DIR to ~/.config/xh in macOS, see #353 (@ducaale)

[0.20.1] - 2023-11-19

Features

• Add --resolve for overriding DNS resolution, see #327 (@ducaale)

[0.19.4] - 2023-10-22

Other

• Explicitly enable serde's derive feature, see #334 (@jayvdb)

[0.19.3] - 2023-10-21

Other

• Make network-interface an optional dependency, see #332 (@blyxxyz)

[0.19.2] - 2023-10-21

Features

• Add --interface for binding to a local IP address or interface, see #307 (@ducaale)
• Translate --raw flag when using --curl, see #308 (@ducaale)
• Support duplicate header keys in session files, see #313 (@ducaale)
• Support persisting cookies from multiple domains, see #314 (@ducaale)
• Control output formatting (JSON indent-level, header sorting, etc) via --format-options, see #318 (@Bnyro) and #319 (@ducaale)

Bug fixes

• Disable cURL's URL globbing, see #325 (@ducaale)
• Improve PATH handling in install.ps1, see #264 (@henno)

Other

• Update Rustls to v0.21.0, see #311 (@ducaale)

[0.18.0] - 2023-02-20

Features

• Support reading query param and header values from a file, see #288 (@ducaale)
• Highlight Syntax errors found while tokenizing a JSON path, see #260 (@ducaale)
• Support outputting the metadata of a response via --meta, --print=m or -vv, see #240 (@ducaale)

Bug fixes

• Fix panic when when parsing connection timeout, see #295 (@sorairolake)

Breaking changes

• Remove -m as a short flag for --multipart, see #299 (@ducaale)

[0.17.0] - 2022-11-08

Features

• Add support for nested json syntax, see #217 (@ducaale)
• Add Support for bearer auth in .netrc, see #267 (@porglezomp)
• Support forcing ipv4/ipv6, see #276 (@zuisong)

Other

• Allow building xh using native-tls only, see #281 (@jirutka)
• Warn users when translating --follow + non GET method, see #280 (@jgoday)

[0.16.1] - 2022-05-22

Bug fixes

• fix HEAD request failing on compressed response, see #257 (@ducaale)

Other

• Configurable install dir for install.sh via XH_BINDIR env variable, see #256 (@lispyclouds)
• Use exit status 2 and 6 for request timeout and too many redirects errors respectively, see #258 (@sorairolake)

[0.16.0] - 2022-04-17

Features

• Add support for URLs with leading :// to allow quick conversion of pasted URLs into HTTPie/xh command e.g http://httpbin.org/json → $ http ://httpbin.org/json, see #232 (@ducaale)
• Support sending multiple request headers with the same key, see #242 (@ducaale)

Bug fixes

• Don't remove content-encoding and content-length headers while processing gzip/deflate/brotli encoded responses, see #241 (@ducaale)

Other

• Replace structopt with clap3.x, see #216 (@ducaale) and #235 (@blyxxyz)
• Improve output coloring performance by switching to incremental highlighting, see #228 (@blyxxyz)
• Faster --stream output formatting by switching to full buffering and manual flushing, see #233 (@blyxxyz)
• Automate the generation of negation flags, see #234 (@blyxxyz)
• Display download's elapsed time as seconds, see #236 (@ducaale)

[0.15.0] - 2022-01-27

Features

• Add support for --raw flag, see #202 (@ducaale)
• Add Fruity theme, see #206 (@ducaale)
• Use a custom netrc parser that supports comments and is more faithful to HTTPie, see #207 (@blyxxyz)
• Add browser-style text encoding detection, see #203 (@blyxxyz)
• Enable using OS certificate store with rustls, see #225 (@austinbutler)
• Improve quoting and update options from --curl, see #200 (@blyxxyz)

Bug fixes

• Expand tilde in request items that contain a path, see #209 (@ducaale)
• Get version from -V when generating manpages, see #214 (@ducaale)

Other

• Statically link C-runtime for MSVC Windows, see #221 (@ducaale)
• Add install.ps1 for Windows, see #220 (@ChrisK-0)
• Add aarch64 support, see #213 (@myhro)

[0.14.1] - 2021-11-26

Bug fixes

• Do not print response body unconditionally, see #197 (@blyxxyz)

Other

• Do not rebuild when no syntax or theme file has changed, see #194 (@blyxxyz)
• Remove curl from dev-dependencies by replacing httpmock with hyper, see #190 (@ducaale)

[0.14.0] - 2021-11-15

Features

• Add --http-version for forcing a specific http version, see #161 (@ducaale)
• Support overwriting response's mime and charset via --response-mime and --response-charset respectively, see #184 (@ducaale)
• Add support for digest authentication, see #176 (@ducaale)
• Add --ssl option for forcing a specific TLS version, see #168 (@blyxxyz)

Bug fixes

• Preserve case of --verify path, see #181 (@blyxxyz)

Other

• Enable LTO on the release profile, see #177 (@sorairolake)
• Replace lazy_static with once_cell, see #187 (@sorairolake)
• Include enabled features in --version flag's output, see #188 and #191 (@sorairolake)
• Support displaying units smaller than a second in download result, see #192 (@sorairolake)
• Change to use binary prefix in --download, see #193 (@sorairolake)

[0.13.0] - 2021-09-16

Features

• Add --all flag for printing intermediate requests and responses, see #137 (@ducaale)
• Support customising what sections are printed from intermediary requests and responses via the --history-print flag, see #137 (@ducaale)

Bug fixes

• Apply header title case for consecutive dashes, see #170 (@blyxxyz)
• Avoid printing unnecessary line separators when --all flag is used, see #174 (@ducaale)

Other

• Include Debian package in release artifacts, see #172 (@ducaale)

[0.12.0] - 2021-08-06

Features

• Add support for HTTPie's Sessions, see #125 (@ducaale)
• Send and display headers names as title case for non-HTTP/2 requests and responses, see #167 (@blyxxyz)
• Support using the system's TLS library via --native-tls flag, see #154 (@blyxxyz)
• Support reading args from a config file, see #165 (@ducaale)

[0.11.0] - 2021-07-26

Features

• Support REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE & CURL_CA_BUNDLE env variables, see #146 (@ducaale)
• Enable color and wrapping for --help, see #151 (@QuarticCat)
• Add monokai theme, #157 (@ducaale)
• handle responses compressed in deflate format, see #158 (@ducaale)
• Support setting the filename for multipart uploads, see #164 (@blyxxyz)

Bug fixes

• Do not hardcode /tmp in the install script, see #149 (@blyxxyz)

Other

• Re-enable HTTP/2 adaptive window, see #150 (@blyxxyz)

Breaking changes

• --check-status is now on by default. You can opt-out of this change by enabling xh's strict compatibility mode, see #155 (@ducaale)

[0.10.0] - 2021-05-17

Features

• Support reading DataField and JsonField value from a file, see #118 (@ducaale)
• Add percentage of progress to download progress bar, see #119 (@sorairolake)
• Add the timeout flag, see #131 (@sorairolake)
• Support installation via a shell script, see #122 (@ducaale)
• Support reading request body from file, see #140 (@blyxxyz)

Bug fixes

• Fix progress bar ETA when resuming download, see #116 (@blyxxyz)
• Replace deflate in Accept-Encoding to br, see #128 (@sorairolake)
• Set Accept-Encoding to identity in download mode, see #130 (@sorairolake)
• Replace HTTP/2 adaptive window by fixed window to prevent crashes, see #138 (@blyxxyz)
• Fix a bug where same file cannot be re-downloaded, see #139 (@ducaale)
• Enforce accept-encoding to be identity in download mode, see #141 (@ducaale)

Other

• Unvendor jsonxf, see #124 (@blyxxyz)
• Add config file for clippy, see #123 (@sorairolake)

[0.9.2] - 2021-03-24

Bug fixes

• Escape backslash in JSON highlighting definition, see #108 (@blyxxyz)
• Do not require filenames to be valid unicode, see #112 (@blyxxyz)
• Preserve the order of JSON keys in requests, see #113 (@ducaale)
• Keep bar coloring consistent with other colored output (e.g. don't color it if $NO_COLOR is set), see #114 (@blyxxyz)
• Prevent console-rs/indicatif#144 in narrow terminals, see #114 (@blyxxyz)

Other

• JSON records are now separated by double newlines, see #109 (@blyxxyz)
• Writing to a redirect or a file now doesn't stream unless you use --stream, like HTTPie, and it properly decodes the response when it needs to, see #111 (@blyxxyz)
• Writing formatted JSON to a file is now significantly faster, see #111 (@blyxxyz)
• Use adaptive window for HTTP/2, see #115 (@blyxxyz)

[0.9.1] - 2021-03-16

Bug fixes

• Don't include the --verify flag in usage when it is not used, see #100 (@ducaale)
• Don't color progress indicators when color is disabled, see #103 (@ducaale)

Other

• JSON requests coloring is now twice as fast, see #96 (@blyxxyz)
• Unify flags and options in help, see #100 (@ducaale)
• Replace ansi_term by termcolor for better Windows support, see #105 (@blyxxyz)

[0.9.0] - 2021-03-08

Features

• Add --no-FLAG variants of flags. This is useful for disabling any flags you might have in your alias, see #86 (@blyxxyz)
• Support non-standard HTTP methods, see #89 (@blyxxyz)
• Add support for getting credentials from .netrc plus a --ignore-netrc flag to disable that functionality, see #87 (@dwink)

[0.8.1] - 2021-03-01

Features

• Highlight Javascript and CSS, see #82 (@blyxxyz)
• Check if text is actually JSON before formatting it, see #82 (@blyxxyz)
• Default to a content-type of application/json when reading a body from stdin, see #82 (@blyxxyz)

[0.8.0] - 2021-02-28

Features

• More robust detection of the method and URL arguments, see #55 (@blyxxyz)
• Improvements to the generation downloaded filenames, see #56 (@blyxxyz)
• --continue now works for resuming downloads. It was incomplete before, see #59 (@blyxxyz)
• --check-status is supported, and is automatically active for downloads (so you don't download error pages), see #59 (@blyxxyz)
• Add the --proxy option, see #62 (@otaconix)
• Add --bearer flag for Bearer Authentication and remove --auth-type, see #64 (@blyxxyz)
• Add support for manpages, see #64 (@blyxxyz)
• Add help subcommand for printing long help and update --help to print short help, see #64 (@blyxxyz)
• Support escaping characters in request items with backslash, see #66 (@blyxxyz)
• Add support for --verify to skip the host’s SSL certificate verification, see #44 (@jihchi, @otaconix)
• Add support for --cert/cert-key for using client side certificate for the SSL communication, see #44 (@jihchi, @otaconix)
• Add --curl flag to print equivalent curl command, see #69 (@blyxxyz)
• Replace --default-scheme by --https. --default-scheme is still kept as an undocumented flag, see #73 (@blyxxyz)
• If xh is invoked as xhs, https, or xhttps, run as if --https was used, see #73 (@blyxxyz)
• Support NO_COLOR environment variable to turn colors off by default, see #73 (@blyxxyz)
• Make --json/--form/--multipart override each other and force content-type. If you use multiple of those flags, all but the last will be ignored. And if you use them without request items the appropriate headers will still be set, see #73 (@blyxxyz)
• Try to detect undeclared JSON response bodies: If the response is javascript or plain text, check if it's JSON, see #73 (@blyxxyz)
• Add shell autocompletion generation, see #76 (@blyxxyz)

Other

• Make structopt usage more consistent, see #67 (@blyxxyz)
• Remove use of async, make --stream work consistently, see #41 (@blyxxyz)
• Introduce clippy and fmt in CI, see #75 (@ducaale)

[0.7.0] - 2021-02-12

Features

• Follow redirects if downloading a file, see #51 (@blyxxyz)
• Allow form value regex to match newlines, see #46 (@blyxxyz)
• Adds --headers option, see #42 (@sanpii)

Other

• Rename ht binary to xh

[0.6.0] - 2021-02-08

Features

• Add support for OPTIONS HTTP method, see #17 (@plombard)
• Add --body flag for printing only response body, see #38 (@idanski)
• Add content length to file upload stream, see #32 (@blyxxyz)
• Include User-Agent header in outgoing requests, see #33 (@blyxxyz)

Other

• Ensure filename from content-disposition doesn't overwrite existing files, isn't a hidden file, or doesn't end up outside the current directory, see #37 (@blyxxyz)
• Bubble errors up to main() instead of panicking see #37 (@blyxxyz)

[0.5.0] - 2021-02-07

Features

• Add support for HEAD requests, see #16 (@Till--H)
• Support setting the content-type for files in multipart requests e.g ht httpbin.org/post --multipart [email protected];type=image/png
• Add --follow and --max-redirects for configuring redirect behaviour, see #19 (@Till--H)

Bug fixes

• Render white text as the default foreground color, see #21 (@blyxxyz)
• Don't insert lines when streaming json.
• Do not explicitly add Host header, see #26 (@blyxxyz)

Other

• Init parsing regex for RequestItem once, see #22 (@jRimbault)

[0.4.0] - 2021-02-06

Features

• Support streaming responses. This on by default for unformatted responses and can also be enabled via the --stream flag

[0.3.5] - 2021-01-31

Features

• Support output redirection for downloads e.g ht -d httpbin.org/json > temp.json

Other

• Upgrade to Tokio 1.x.