hello-http

New

• "Copy as PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest command (for Windows pwsh.exe)", as a replacement of the removed feature in v1.5.0.

Change

• The "copy as cURL/grpcurl command" dropdown menu no longer differs among OS. Because developers may have to work across different OSes, e.g. remote into a Linux shell from a Windows desktop.
• Generated grpcurl command is now compatible with older versions of grpcurl and grpc servers

Fix

• Multipart requests could not be sent. This regression was introduced since v1.4.6.
• Non-ASCII characters in multipart requests could not be sent properly

New

• Copy buttons in responses -- can copy individual fields, entire request and response, or even the whole transport log
• JSON arrays and objects are now collapsable in response
• Line numbers in request code editor and response view
• Warning dialog will be prompted at startup if a newer data version is used with an old app version, e.g. if Hello HTTP v1.6.0 is used, and then Hello HTTP v1.5.0 is launched
• Custom HTTP methods
• Relative Time display mode in Transport Timeline

Change

• Font sizes of code editor and Response views are now smaller to display more data
• JSON prettify style - now arrays with 20- primitive elements are in the same line; otherwise [ and { are followed by a new line character
• Copying cURL or grpcurl commands now display a green prompt if it succeeds
• In Transport Timeline, redundant time display is removed, e.g. time range "23:44:57.115 ~ 23:44:57.115" would now only show "23:44:57.115"

Fix

• When there is not enough space to display a text, "..." now terminates by characters instead of by words
• Default content-type header was wrong (can be override manually) (the fix in v1.4.6 was not complete)
• Could not import a partially corrupted backup -- corrupted records, which are always invisible and unusable, would be skipped now
• Some gRPC response headers are missing in the "Header" tab (they are available in the "Raw" tab)

Remove

• For Windows, copying as cURL / grpcurl commands are removed -- unfortunately, there is no feasible way to escape newline characters within double-quoted strings in cmd.exe

Fix

• Default content-type header of JSON requests was wrong. This regression was introduced in v1.4.5.
• Could not import a partially corrupted backup -- corrupted records, which are always invisible and unusable, would be skipped now

Change

• Unicode characters and spaces in URL of generated cURL commands are now encoded

Fix

• Crash when creating a WebSocket request although the creation was successful
• Unicode characters and spaces inside request body and URL could not be sent properly for HTTP text requests and GraphQL queries/mutations

Change

• Inactive HTTP/2 connections are now cancelled after it is hanging for 3 seconds

Fix

• HTTP requests could not be cancelled if server did not respond

New

• Linux builds are stable now – tested on Ubuntu, Debian, Kali Linux, Fedora, CentOS, Linux Mint with GNOME, Xfce, LXQt, Cinnamon
• Importing a client certificate – now mTLS connections can be tested
• Connection security indicator (Unencrypted / Unverified TLS / Verified One-way TLS / Verified mTLS) with certificate information display
• Option to disable system CA certificates
• Shortcut "Ctrl-Enter" to send payload or request when the focus is in the request editor

Change

• Tabs can be scrolled in both horizontal and vertical directions
• Tooltip relative position is lowered because it blocks clicking the delete button
• Tooltip background color of the light theme is lighter to make tooltip text more readable
• Duplicate button has tooltip now

Fix

• Crash if "Open Backup Directory" is clicked without any backup made beforehand
• System CA certificates were not trusted if custom CA certificates were provided
• No error were displayed if importing an invalid certificate was rejected

New

• Duplicating a request
• Importing additional trusted CA certificates for SSL

Change

• Many dialogs are larger now

Fix

• Crash and incorrect highlights after doing a text search in a response body text field and then switching to another response while keeping the search box opening
• A possible crash if search text result is at a position after variables or functions

New

• Error message is now displayed if fetching gRPC API spec or copying curl/grpcurl command fails
• Insomnia importer now imports more timestamp functions (millis and unix)

Fix

• Crash if a request without payload was selected, and then a request with payload was selected
• Could not import from Insomnia if the dump contains a GraphQL request with an empty body
• Variables in GraphQL query documents imported from Insomnia and Postman were not resolved
• gRPC API spec could not be fetched if URL contains a variable

New

• gRPC support (via Server Reflection only)
• Postman exporter
• Response filtering by JSON path

Change

• Postman importer imports GraphQL queries and mutations
• Project/Subproject name dialog is more wide
• Dialogs can be dismissed by hitting the "Escape" key
• Drop-down menus are disabled if nothing can be selected

Fix

• Missing PATCH in supported HTTP request methods
• Crash when clicking edit/delete button without selecting a subproject
• Crash when viewing Transport Timeline with HTTP/2 without a stream
• Incorrect copy behaviour in Transport Timeline (only fixed the case if there are 2000 lines or less)
• Clicking on dialog border should not dismiss the dialog
• Insomnia exporter incorrectly assumed the request is GraphQL while exporting request headers
• Post flight action JSON path parsing is not working if the result is not a string
• Content-type application/graphql-response+json; charset=utf-8 was not recognized as JSON

New

• GraphQL support (queries + mutations + subscriptions)
• "Connecting to the host" event in request timeline
• SSL handshake completion event in WebSocket-based request timeline (it is present in HTTP-based requests)
• Searching in response body

Change

• Width of the project selector in the setting dialog is narrowed to make the dialog easier to be scrolled
• Selected event in message streaming view is highlighted

Fix

• Responses to single clicks, which the underlying view is listening to double clicks as well, should not be delayed
• Crashed if Send Payload button was clicked while WebSocket connection was not yet established
• Array values were not highlighted in JSON syntax highlighting
• "Content Type" selector in the "Body" tab of Request Editor disappeared when a content type was selected

New

• now.epochMills and now.epochSeconds user functions

Change

• Only HTTP status code 101 is recognized as successful for WebSocket in UI (status label background colour)
• "Click to show detail" applies to all WebSocket events in message streaming view regardless of event types

Fix

• Various bug fixes related to WebSocket requests

New

• Release for Ubuntu
• WebSocket support
• HTTP/2 support
• Cancelling an ongoing request

Change

• A project/subproject is automatically selected if there is only one
• Subproject list is hidden if a project is not selected
• Default user-agent header
• Transition between delete buttons and confirm buttons is now an cross-fade animation

Fix

• Request body JSON/raw text field should not reset the cursor upon typing
• cURL commands generated were not usable in Windows
• "Communicating" was shown and timer was counting indefinitely if an ongoing request was interrupted by restarting the application