# Install httptap with Homebrew, Nix HTTP request visualizer with phase-by-phase timing breakdown. Version 0.5.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-21. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:httptap ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install httptap ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#httptap ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ht/httptap/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:httptap - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.5.2 - **Source summary:** HTTP request visualizer with phase-by-phase timing breakdown - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-21T12:42:19Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - httptap (cli) - httptap (alias) ## Dependencies - certifi - python@3.14 ## Build dependencies - rust ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.5.2 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-21 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://httptap.dev - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage httptap is a newer HTTP diagnostics CLI that renders a single request as phase-by-phase timing data, including DNS, TCP connect, TLS handshake, server wait, and transfer. It is aimed at interactive troubleshooting and lightweight baseline recording. ### Project history The ozeranskii/httptap repository was created in October 2025. The README frames the project as a Rich-powered Python CLI built on httpcore trace hooks, with output modes ranging from waterfall timelines to compact summaries and metrics-only exports. The documentation shows a project that treated release engineering and supply-chain details as part of the product early on: the release process page describes automated versioning, changelog generation, signing, PyPI/TestPyPI publishing, GitHub releases, and container-image publication. ### Adoption history Adoption signals are early but concrete. The project ships through PyPI, Homebrew, Nix, source installs, and a GHCR container image, and its README badges point to CI, coverage, CodeQL, OpenSSF Scorecard, and OpenSSF Best Practices. The README compares httptap directly with curl -w, httpstat, and httpie. That positioning makes it part of a lineage of command-line request debugging tools rather than a general HTTP client. ### How it is used Users invoke httptap with a URL and optional request flags to produce a timeline, compact summary, JSON export, or metrics-only output. The README documents all HTTP methods, custom headers, request bodies, redirects, SLO threshold checks, and TLS certificate inspection. The security assurance documentation says httptap is a command-line diagnostic tool, not a server, account system, credential store, or remote-code execution surface. Credentials supplied as headers are forwarded for the diagnostic request rather than persisted as long-lived application state. ### Why package nerds care httptap matters to package nerds because it modernizes the old curl/httpstat timing idea with richer terminal rendering, Python packaging, signed release artifacts, and explicit supply-chain documentation. It is small in scope but polished in distribution. Its comparison table makes the packaging niche unusually clear: curl -w is the primitive, httpstat is the older visual wrapper, httpie is a request explorer, and httptap focuses on observable request phases with structured export. ### Timeline - 2025: GitHub repository created. - 2026: v0.4.x and v0.5.x releases published through GitHub releases. - 2026: Security assurance document reviewed for httptap 0.5.0. - 2026: Documentation describes automated release, signing, PyPI, TestPyPI, GitHub Release, and GHCR publication flow. ### Related projects - curl -w is the baseline shell primitive that can emit timing values. - httpstat is the older curl-backed visual timing tool named in httptap's comparison table. - httpie is a general HTTP request exploration CLI that httptap distinguishes from timing diagnostics. - httpcore provides the trace-hook foundation named by the README for detailed phase measurement. ### Sources - GitHub releases supply the 2026 release timeline. - GitHub repository metadata supplies the creation date, description, homepage, license, and popularity signal. - The README supplies purpose, feature set, install paths, output modes, comparisons, and usage. - The documentation supplies security posture and release-process details. ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for httptap. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** httptap - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 1 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - httptap: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ht/httptap/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Security and crypto packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/security-crypto-tools/) - Matched security, identity, cryptography, password, signing, or certificate metadata. - [Web development packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/web-dev-tools/) - Matched web development metadata. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [httping](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/httping/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, http, latency, monitoring, networking. - [dish](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dish/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, http, monitoring, networking. - [dnstop](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dnstop/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dns, monitoring, networking. - [easeprobe](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/easeprobe/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, http, monitoring, networking. - [cloudprober](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cloudprober/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [darkstat](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/darkstat/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [mrtg](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mrtg/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, monitoring, networking. - [nbping](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/nbping/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, latency, monitoring, networking. - [checkdmarc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/checkdmarc/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: certifi, cli, dns, networking, python. - [dnsviz](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dnsviz/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, diagnostics, dns, networking, python. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/httptap.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/httptap.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph