Paw HTTP Client

When developing Web apps you spend a lot of time in the browser, and before long you have a crap-ton of open tabs which slows the system down and is a total pain to navigate around in.

I have previously used HTTP Client when testing JSON APIs, it did the job, but to me it always felt a bit too simple¹.

Someone on Twitter mentioned Paw being awesome - and boy were they right!

Paw is packed full of useful features like HTTP header auto completion, response formatting with syntax highlighting and the most useful of them all: Request grouping. Paw will sort your requests by host and HTTP method² making it really easy to find the request you looking for in a snap.

Having an easy way to edit and execute complex HTTP requests is super awesome and saves me a lot of time. Paw can also generate code for your request, but alas no perl.

Paw comes with a selection of HTTP libraries, each of which as some shortcomings³ - the default is called "GCD AsyncSocket" provides more debugging options but is less battle-tested than the other options provided⁴.

Judging by the changelog on the iTunes store, the app is being improved continuously and the developer is really responsive to feature requests⁵.

I highly recommend Paw.