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Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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Any chance of the ability to do web sockets? Postman has started supporting this recently (in beta) but I really don't want to use Postman. Any other suggestions for web socket testing clients also welcome.

I definitely intend to add web socket support eventually. Meanwhile, there's https://socketfox.dev which I made for my friends. You can use it to test web sockets.

https://socketfox.dev/ doesn't resolve for me :/

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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>curl is always available curl is not installed by default in many distros Also, I don't think it's possible to call external processes from within the browser sandbox

> curl is not installed by default in many distros Which ones (apart from alpine)? I thought curl was pretty much as basic as it got and is always there.

debian

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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post #134

Tried to just GET www.google.com; says error and suggests bypassing with some plugins. Don't think I want to continue further.

try to `fetch('https://www.google.com')` from console on a few different websites and you'll see either CSP errors or the same CORS errors that come up in restfox. all the extension does is send the request with the runtime api to get around the (good and reasonable) security constraints on web pages loaded over http: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/tree/main/packages/b...

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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post #8

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Seems pretty nice but $50 is a little high - is it really worth the premium?

I’ve been using it for a long time and I’d happily pay $100 for it. It can consume swagger/openapi docs and generate calls. It can generate code snippets and cURL requests. You can extract values from one response body to use as a variable in another request, the built in features go on and on- and there’s a decent extension ecosystem/write your own. Most importantly, it just works, and it works well and quickly, wit…

insomnia has all this and is free for individual use. for DRY authentication you can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/insomnia-plugin-default-header..., if thats not enough you can pair it with https://www.npmjs.com/package/insomnia-plugin-accesstoken

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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post #8

Switched away from Postman to a native Mac app and my RAM couldn't be happier ( https://paw.cloud )

Seems pretty nice but $50 is a little high - is it really worth the premium?

the difference in price reflects the extra time (and background experience) it takes to build a given thing as a native app instead of an electron app. not saying paw is especially good though

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

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> Last time I posted this it didn't garner much interest. Looks good. I use Postman daily and it sucks, so always open to alternatives. I don't recall what it looked like the last time you posted, but I wonder if part of the low interest is because upon arrival it doesn't instantly jump out to the visitor that this is something you can host/run locally. It's very easy to miss the Github links top right. And if you do…

I currently use Postman but havent had problems yet, though next week I'm joining an API crew. Your opinion seems strong; could you tell me where you ran into pitfalls with it I should look out for?

Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

#168

I have been trying out https://hurl.dev and so far been really liking it. Plain text format, everything runs very quickly locally, it can capture data from previous requests to run workflows and serve as a testing tool.

If you like hurl, you may also like Step CI, which uses yaml, generates tests from your OpenAPI spec and is easy to integrate with CI/CD Give it a try: https://stepci.com It's free and open-source on GitHub, built by the community! Disclaimer: I'm the original author

Having a startup delay because the cli is written in node is a non starter for me. Hurl is written in Rust and starts up incredibly fast. It looks nice though for those that want to stick with the JS ecosystem though.
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