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ary on Dec 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List fo...

Given my personal experience I have to warn people away from HTTP Client. It is bug-ridden and broken. Many of the UI elements break in weird ways during normal use. I had to quit and re-run the application many times just to bring it back to a usable state (only to have it break again immediately).

Spend your money on Rested instead. I don't quite understand the OP's assertion that "RESTed is a little bit more complex than HTTP Client." Considering Rested actually works I'd consider it a lot more simple than HTTP Client.

Edit: To be clear, I am in no way connected with the author of Rested. I'm just a very satisfied customer.

JonnieCache on Dec 20, 2011 | [–]

Or just use curl. httpclient is just a wrapper for curl.

drewda on Dec 20, 2011 | | [–]

I've been having good luck with http://code.google.com/p/cocoa-rest-client/

notJim on Dec 21, 2011 | [–]

I use the RESTClient Firefox extension for this kind of thing. It also does oauth, which is nice.

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