In the UI it would be nice to duplicate the selected connection, in the menu "With Selected". 

The copy would be set with the same name plus some suffix (_copy, _1, whatever) and it is useful for when you have a connection with all equal fields except something in a particular one. 
airflow/www/views.py
error_message = (
                'Given execution date, {}, could not be identified '
                'as a date. Example date format: 2015-11-16T14:34:15+00:00'.format(execution_date)
            )
            response = jsonify({'error': error_message})
            response.status_code = 400
            return response
        task_log_reader = TaskLogReader()
        if not task_log_reader.supports_read:
            return jsonify(
                message="Task log handler does not support read logs.",
                error=True,
                metadata={"end_of_log": True},
            )
        ti = (
            session.query(models.TaskInstance)
            .filter(
                models.TaskInstance.dag_id == dag_id,
                models.TaskInstance.task_id == task_id,
                models.TaskInstance.execution_date == execution_date,
            )
            .first()
        )
        if ti is None:
            return jsonify(
                message="*** Task instance did not exist in the DB\n",
                error=True,
                metadata={"end_of_log": True},
            )
        try: