Poster

Poster es un addons for FireFox created by Alex Milowski which is very usefull, when experimenting with atom feeds. Poster allows to compose her/his own hand-crafted get or post http command. Since these commands are the way to communicate with atom blogs in a restful manner, Poster is a very nice sandbox to try, err and finally find.

Alternatives contain curl, html forms, xhtml xforms. None is so satisfactory as Poster.

In Poster, there are separate fields for:
- URL
- File selection or Content editor directly from the addon
- Content type definition (put "application/xml+atom" for atom feeds)
- User and Pass (with option of Google Login, for blogger)

All these parts are gathered in one of the following http command :
- GET
- POST
- PUT
- DELETE
- HEAD
- OPTIONS
- PROFIND
- COPY
- MOVE

Additional functions include (I don't know yet how to use them):
- Headers
- Parameters
- Parameter body
- Encode

The configuration can be saved, imported, stored

Finally, when the command is send, another window opens with the result of the command, received from the server. Very neat.