title: HTTP testing on the command line, is there something better than cURL?
body: <p>Is there a command line utility where you can simply set up an HTTP request and have the trace simply output back to the console?</p>
  
  <p>Also specifying the method simply would be a great feature instead of the method being a side effect.</p>
  
  <p>I can get all the information I need with cURL but I can't figure out a way to just display it without dumping everything to files.</p>
  
  <p>I'd like the output to show the sent headers the received headers and the body of the message.</p>
  
  <p>There must be something out there but I haven't been able to google for it. Figured I should ask before going off and writing it myself.</p>