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Sessions Commands

Create named sessions to persist headers, auth, and cookies across multiple requests.

6 commands

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Use --session=name to create reusable session configs

$ http --session=api POST https://api.example.com/login user=admin pass=secret

Create a named session.

$ http --session=api GET https://api.example.com/protected

Use an existing session.

$ http --session-read-only=api GET https://api.example.com/data

Use session without saving changes.

$ http --session=./session.json POST https://api.example.com/login

Save session to specific file.

$ http --session=dev -a user:pass GET https://api.example.com/data

Create a named session that persists auth credentials for reuse.

$ http --session=prod GET https://api.example.com/data X-Api-Key:secret123

Store custom headers in a session for repeated use.