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Testing web services can be daunting. You sit with either a half built app and keep adjusting parameters to see results and test from your application OR you hit the service with CURL from command prompt. You may also have been clever enough to use hurl or a Firefox plugin. But, did you know about RESTClient? Sure took me long enough to find it. 

I can't believe I didn't take the time to find a tool like this sooner. It's really a wonderful tool. It will let you pass along all sorts of options along with your request so you can use it with various authentication requirements, SSL, and more. I think the best part about it though is that it will indent and highlight the returned response if in JSON or XML.

It has several other advanced options that I haven't gotten around to yet and may never end up using, but you can create template and run batch tests. Sounds impressive. All in a very nice small Java application so it's cross platform.