Support for sending body data that isn't in key:value format

We should support somehow sending request body data as raw string. Without the requirement of providing key=value pair. This is related to jkbrzt/httpie#399 . In the httpie library, the issue is solved by command input redirection… Eg.:

echo 'some string value' | http POST example.com/person/1

Which sort of complicates things for this library… I’m not sure how we should approach this.

[fogine]

IPython uses an exclamation mark to prefix a shell command.

@eliangcs , that is certainly better, I’d rather introduce new command sh or shell instead of explanation mark which could take unquoted, squoted or dquoted string as an argument… I think it would be more transparent that way …

The example would become:

shell echo 'some string value' | post example.com/person/1 | shell grep "abc" | post /upload 

Edit: As I think about it, the explanation mark is good as well…

[BoboTiG]

The feature has been added to HTTPie (--raw option, https://github.com/httpie/httpie/tree/master/docs#request-data-via---raw). It will be made available for HTTP Prompt for the next HTTPie release (soon).