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 HTTP request headers
- preview of HTML both as text and rendered in the browser
Features planned for upcoming releases include:
- tools for saving and loading requests
- localization
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 a couple of drawbacks:
- 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 is not currently l10n-capable yet. The goal is to have this implemented sooner rather than later.