Tx I will look at ZnClient and see if I understand.

Stef

On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 


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