Helping developers send POST HTTP requests

[Steren Giannini]

Hi,

I am following up on a Twitter conversation.

I always wish Chrome Dev Tools had a basic UI to send HTTP requests, in particular POST requests.

The use cases are:

1. You want to test the endpoint of a 3rd party API that accepts POST requests.

2. You are developing a website (client and server) and are working on an REST API endpoint. Preferably, you want to test this endpoint before using it in your JS frontend. 

Testing GET requests is easy: just use the URL bar. But testing other HTTP verbs isn't possible without additional tools:

Today, developers can do this using cURL, tools like Postman or Advanced REST Client or use the DevTools console to use a JS library that they are serving in their frontend (e.g. jQuery).

An advanced developer is probably aware of these techniques, but sending POST requests is something that even beginners need to do.

What if Chrome had a simple built-in UI to achieve this?

This is a feature that has been requested in the Chrome issue tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106443 

What do you think?

Steren