On 01 Jul 2011, at 17:52, stephane ducasse wrote: > Hi guys > > I'm writing with olivier a chapter for the seaside book on REST and olivier > uses curl to analyse the contents of request and answers > and I would like to see if we can do it in Pharo. Now can I run zinc in > another image and spy the requests? > > Stef
curl is a command line http (it also supports some other protocols) client. it does not spy on conversations between other parties. curl is indeed very handy to quickly try out rest calls. using the Zn clients you can do almost anything that curl does. the fact that you have the whole Smalltalk functonality (IDE + language) will make it much more fun. furthermore, it is quite easy to add some extra functionality to make it super handy to talk to a specific REST host, transparently parsing and generating JSON with specific conventions or handling certain type of authorization/authentication. but this is often slightly too specific to turn into a general client. anyway, we're doing it all the time (and are using curl as well). sven
