A tools tab with common operations available?

[ahmadnassri]

What would be really cool would be to have a tools tab with a set of commonly used utilities when using HTTP type resources. Examples of this would be base64 encode/decode, url encode/decode, XML escape/un-escape and UUID generation.

RESTful APIs often require data to be passed in like this so it would be nice to be able to do this sort of thing from within the console interface.

Not sure if this sort of thing is easy to add within a chromium app, however - just a suggestion.

By XML escape I mean converting a string so that it doesn't have any of the XML reserved characters in it. These are: < > & ' "

So:

Becomes: <top><element attr="boo" /></top>

And vice versa. There's an online example here: http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/developer-tools/quick-escape/default.php

Will try and think of more tools too and comment here if I do.

Thanks for this chrome app, it's really good. It's taken me a while to move away from Poster in Firefox but this has finally allowed me to make the jump!