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Httpie is an HTTP client used by some developers to communicate with and test REST API and other services available through HTTP.

Every time I use httpie (https://httpie.io/) in addition to the server I specify, it also makes a connection to the their own server https://httpie.io

I am on macOS, and installed httpie using Brew.

I only imagine they are collecting some telemetry.

Has anyone looked at the information httpie is transmitting? Is there a way to check what information httpie is transmitting?

I love the tool and use it rather frequently, but every time I feel I should look into this.

following comments, I looked at their source code here https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ahttpie%2Fhttpie+httpie.io+language%3APython&type=code&l=Python

There is a "check for updates" call that can be a candidate.

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    It is probably worth specifying exactly what product you are using. If it is the OS cli then looking at the code would seem a good start.
    – User65535
    May 23 at 13:41
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    Have you asked them?
    – schroeder ♦
    May 23 at 16:29

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You could use a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) proxy (e.g. Charles proxy; https://www.charlesproxy.com/) to inspect the requests made by httpie, which supports proxies (https://httpie.io/docs/cli/proxies). I would hope they honor the configuration for those additional requests.

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