REST Easy is a Firefox add-on that provides a full-featured REST client in the browser. It is still a work in progress, but the features currently implemented include:
- support for GET, POST, and HEAD methods
- parameter editor for POST requests
- ability to customize nearly every HTTP request header
- preview of HTML both as text and rendered in the browser
- syntax highlighting for HTML, JavaScript/JSON, and XML
- preview of images and a simple hex viewer for binary files
Features planned for upcoming releases include:
- tools for saving and loading requests
Using REST Easy is simple: just click the toolbar button or the "REST Easy" item in the web developer menu.
Interested in helping out with REST Easy development? We'd love to have you contribute! Just fork this repository, make your changes, and submit a pull request. Here are some of the areas we would like some help in:
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JavaScript programmers: the add-on is written almost exclusively in JavaScript. We currently use XMLHttpRequest for sending the requests but this has three of drawbacks:
- certain request headers cannot be set
- redirects are automatically followed
- HTTP basic authentication is handled by the browser (although the add-on can supply the required data)
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CSS Designers: the add-on uses Twitter Bootstrap. Currently, there are a set of nasty JavaScipt event handlers that position everything on the page. It would be nice if this could be done in CSS somehow.
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Localization: the add-on currently provides only an English translation. All translations for other languages are welcome.
