title: Is there a handy GUI for REST manual services testing?
body: <p>While developing a REST service I want to be able to manually submit some data (e.g. by PUT or POST method) to a specific URL and see the response. The only tool I know is SoapUI, which is not only a commercial product, but a bit overcomplicated while my task is so simple. There is <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2575101/lightweight-alternative-to-soapui">a question about SoapUI alternatives</a>, but all the discussion there is about SOAP services, while what I need is just some REST :-) Any ideas? I know I can write such a tool myself pretty easily, but I'd prefer not to reinvent a bicycle if there is one.</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1659/mark-cidade">Mark Cidade</a>'s answer is ok, but I'd wish the tool could run on Linux too...</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE 2: The solution of my choice came to be <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/httprequester/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HttpRequester Firefox extension</a>.</p>