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FileZilla vs HTTPie: What are the differences?
FileZilla: The free FTP solution for both client and server. It is a powerful and free software for transferring files over the Internet. It is a very popular FTP client and is used by webmasters from all over the world; HTTPie: A command line HTTP client. It is a Modern command line HTTP client – user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc.
FileZilla and HTTPie can be primarily classified as "File Transfer" tools.
Some of the features offered by FileZilla are:
- Easy to use
- Supports FTP
- Cross-platform
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 42.6K GitHub stars and 2.8K GitHub forks. Here's a link to HTTPie's open source repository on GitHub.
Cons of FileZilla
Cons of HTTPie
- No support for HTTP/21