This is hilarious to me, after using the evil things for years . Of course, there are reasons to use the hated postman and companies (may they be forever cursed). And I plan to keep using them.
But many valid points are made
I like Hoppscotch
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"query": "{ users { name } }"}'? No. Why would you do that when you can just do--json '{"query": "{ users { name } }"}'. Yeah curl is awesome.If you’re trying to say that curl isn’t he best option for my mom, you’re totally right.
For developers, on he other hand…
The only thing I still use Postman for at work is when running API performance benchmarks, as I wasn’t yet motivated enough to write a curl wrapper to do such tests and plot the results. Especially when doing things like ramp up etc. it becomes more than a simple for-loop.
Can someone recommend an existing command line tool for that?
If you are running performance benchmarks, how about using jmeter?
Thank you, from a quick glance it seems to be able to do everything I need. I will try it for my next load test.
What about doing grpc / protobuf stuff
Total feelings of superiority: immeasurable.
isn’t this how RMS uses the internet? By cURLing all the URLs?
No, he has his own bizarre approach
I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.
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Didn’t know cURL supports so many protocols
meh, use whatever the fuck you want
there, I can swear too
If you like having a postman like interface, I’ve been using Bruno, which is a local, de-enshittified clone of postman.
I’ve never thought about just using curl, but when I’ll finally migrate for good out of windows to Linux, I will try doing just that, see how that feels.
I use Hoppscotch
Bruno has telemetry users can’t opt out of: https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/337
Which, IMO, is unacceptable.
Man, we just can’t win with these UI tools, I also thought Bruno was the solution. Only use it on my work machine so that’s why I guess I never noticed this. Thank you for sharing, time to go back to digging for better alternatives.
never noticed! will not recommend in the future. thanks for the heads up.
Its just a visit counter no personal data or application data is stored
Servers can see the incoming IP address for a request, that is personal data.
That’s not what the Github ticket says.
Also command line alias or function to do API requests with curl?
Maybe there is something out there?
One more reason, there is a “copy as cURL” option in the Firefox developer tools network tab. It gives you a perfect cURL command including all the necessary cookies and headers to send the exact HTTP request that your browser just sent.
OMFG I wished I knew about this years ago! Thank you!
Yay, learning!
This is great.
curl is not great when testing configuration for various software solutions. there are a few better options than postman like httpie and another one but I forget its name.
Did you read the full post?
I did and I did not see anything in the article that would take your api and give you an equivalent statement in a variety of languages which I think is why it was nice using the programs but i has been over a year since I did it. It was a fairly high amount of convenience.
ducaale/xh is another much like curl. Closer to postman are Hoppscotch and Insomnia.
Xh is my favorite— a rewrite of httpie with some fixes.
ok yeah I think the other one I used was like a fork of insomnia.
More coming soon. Or not. I don’t owe you shit.
So much.
I struggle, þough. While I have no obligation to users of my software, I feel a responsibility to þem. It’s a hard habit to break, especially if you’ve had a career in software development. It’s equally hard, as a user of FOSS, to not get angry at developers. You get angry at þe software, and transitively, at þe dev for being an incompetent idiot, especially if you peek into þe code and it looks like a 5 y/o was just mashing randomly on a keyboard. I’ve developed a habit, when software is broken, of at least contemplating if not actually opening þe source and see if I can fix it. Eiþer I learn I don’t have enough interest or skill, and it calms me down. Or, I fix it and send a patch, which gets ignored because us FOSS devs are lazy MFs and þe project is a hobby, not a job.
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