Differences from HTTPie

[ducaale]

• --check-status is enabled by default unless xh is used in strict compatibility mode.
• Rustls is used by default instead of the system's TLS library. (If enabled at compile time, the --native-tls flag can be used.)
• JSON keys are not sorted.
• Header names are not case-sensitive.
• Header values are not decoded as ISO-8859-1. See https://github.com/ducaale/xh/issues/323
• Formatted output is always UTF-8.
• Leading dot is always removed from cookie domains. See https://github.com/SergioBenitez/cookie-rs/issues/73
• .netrc supports bearer authentication. See https://github.com/ducaale/xh/pull/267

[blyxxyz]

Formatted output is always UTF-8.

What this means (IIRC) is that if:

• The output is being redirected
• The response is JSON
• The response is latin1 (or some other non-UTF-8 encoding)
• --pretty=format is passed

then HTTPie will turn the formatted JSON back into latin1, while we write it as UTF-8.