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.
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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.
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#163Tried to just GET www.google.com; says error and suggests bypassing with some plugins. Don't think I want to continue further.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
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#165Switched 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?
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#166> 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…
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#168I 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
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#169Sorry for a complete tangent - I've been assuming gray OP's text in ask/show meant people were downvoting a post and it always weirded me out - now had to double check to confirm it's simply always grayed out (why though?)
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#170I 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.