Testing RESTful services which is better?

We have bunch of WebServices to test and am looking for automating them which scripting is better and easy way( with SSL support)

• 1) Groovy - HTTP builder 2)
• 2)Perl - Which module to 开发者_运维知识库use ?
• 3) Python -urllib ?
• 4) SOAPUI - I'm already using this for SOAP/HTTP services and happy with this, however, I didn't get WADL file to test REST services.

I'm NOT fully convinced with fiddler,POSTER and Rest-client from google code...

I've found SOAPUI to be marvelously easy to use. You can incorporate GROOVY scripts as needed if you need to do extra-fancy things (this may be a PRO feature).

SoapUI also supports SSL authentication.

2)Perl - Which module to use ?

Take a look at swat a DSL for web, rest services test automation, extensible with Perl. Swat is written in Perl as well. Swat uses curl API under the hood and very friendly to start with.

Disclosure - I am the author of swat.