At Teracy, we embrace JWT (JSON Web Tokens)¹ for REST APIs to make secure requests. Just for your information: “JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties”.

We’re using JWT for our REST APIs basing on the flask-boilerplate² project that are empowering our clients’ web applications and our internal projects.

And to test REST APIs, we’re using a really simple powerful http client called httpie³ .

To make a JWT request with httpie, you need to use the following command:

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$ http example.org Authorization:'Bearer jwt_token_here'

Hower, typing Authorization with the exact value format is a bit hard and error-prone, that’s the reason why we created httpie-jwt-auth plugin with the first v0.1.0 release. After installing httpie-jwt-auth, you could use this instead:

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$ http --auth-type=jwt --auth=jwt_token_here: example.org

That’s it. It’s really easy to use for any JWT requests with httpie.

Please note that colon character at the end of jwt_token_here, we’re going to work on removing the redundant colon character with: https://github.com/teracyhq/httpie-jwt-auth/issues/3

Hope that you’ll like it and use it as much as we do.

Happy developing and debugging!