Mechanism to pass custom headers before URL

[sensibleish]

The input format for custom headers (http URL customer-header customer-header...) is very strange compared to cURL. cURL offers -H for custom headers. This makes it easy to define presets (like bash aliases) that include headers. I'm not a bash expert, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do that with http.

[MazeChaZer]

This should work (in bash):

function myhttp {
    http "$@" 'Foobar:asdf'
}

The order in which the REQUEST_ITEMs are specified doesn't matter. Although I have to admit that I didn't hit on this immediately and wrote a fancy script that mangled the METHOD/URL parameters :smile:

Perhaps this would be worth documenting somewhere (in case it isn't already).

[az-pz]

Having custom headers before url also allows you to edit url easily from bash history. You don't have to move left to url to edit the url endpoint.

[ddevault]

Also dropping by to voice support for this feature.