curl is one of those great utilities that’s been around seemingly forever and has endless use cases. These days I find myself using curl to batch download files and test APIs. Sometimes my testing leads me to using different HTTP headers in my requests.
To add a header to a curl request, use the -H flag:
curl -X 'GET' \ ' \ -H 'accept: application/json' \ -H 'Version: 1'
You can add multiple headers with multiple -H uses. Header format is usually [key]: [value].
LightFace: Facebook Lightbox for MooTools
One of the web components I’ve always loved has been Facebook’s modal dialog. This “lightbox” isn’t like others: no dark overlay, no obnoxious animating to size, and it doesn’t try to do “too much.” With Facebook’s dialog in mind, I’ve created LightFace: a Facebook lightbox…
fetch API
One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it,
XMLHttpRequest, wasn’t really made for what we’ve been using it for. We’ve done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better. Our effort to…
MooTools TwitterGitter Plugin
Everyone loves Twitter. Everyone loves MooTools. That’s why everyone should love TwitterGitter, a MooTools plugin that retrieves a user’s recent tweets and allows the user to format them however the user would like. TwitterGitter allows the user to choose the number of…
Control Element Outline Position with outline-offset
I was recently working on a project which featured tables that were keyboard navigable so obviously using cell outlining via traditional
tabIndex=0and element outlines was a big part of allowing the user navigate quickly and intelligently. Unfortunately I ran into a Firefox 3.6 bug…
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