Complete RESTful API debugging/testing tool

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Published on 2011-07-31T15:31:53Z Indexed on 2012/04/13 5:41 UTC
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I'm looking for the most complete tool, preferably portable GUI or browser plugin to test RESTful API.

What I need is:

GET/POST/DELETE/PUT support
multiple file uploads as fields (multipart/form-data)
file uploads as body

Extra points for:

possibility to save multiple configurations and use them to pre-fill parameters
OAuth support
nice JSON response formatting

Currently I'm using 3 tools:

Chrome REST Console extension — My favorite, very nicely done. Has OAuth. However the functionality missing for me is sending file as a body of the request; Cannot send multiple files;
Firefox Poster add-on — Quite nice, but the functionality it's missing for file as POST fields parameters; Also cannot send multiple files;
cURL — can do anything, but it's quite tedious to use it from command line.

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