Somehow I used to hate curl because I began using it through the PHP Curl extension,which has the most horrible API(no,the other API for HTTP requests in PHP is even worse, it creates adhoc variables,yes variables can appear like that in PHP which leads to "variable name collisison"... ).

But with time,using it in the shell it happened to be quite powerfull for testing apis.

HTTPie coloring is a plus,does it work with XML too?