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WinSCP vs HTTPie: What are the differences?
WinSCP: A popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. It is a popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows. Copy file between a local computer and remote servers using FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, WebDAV or S3 file transfer protocols; HTTPie: A command-line HTTP client made for APIs. It is a Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc.
WinSCP and HTTPie belong to "File Transfer" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by WinSCP are:
- Graphical user interface
- Integrated text editor
- All common operations with files
On the other hand, HTTPie provides the following key features:
- Expressive and intuitive syntax
- Formatted and colorized terminal output
- Built-in JSON support
HTTPie is an open source tool with 48.1K GitHub stars and 3.09K GitHub forks. Here's a link to HTTPie's open source repository on GitHub.
Cons of HTTPie
- No support for HTTP/21