I don’t understand, what is it, what does it do?
Ok, it’s a tool to test rest api.
Good for you. Now did you check what postman does?
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#42I switched to insomnia when postman changed their pricing pulling the rug out from everyone wanting us to pay like $300 more per month. (Before they back tracked) https://insomnia.rest/ I actually prefer it.
Same here, moved from postman to insomnia, now mostly using the rest plugin for visual studio code. Prefer using regular text files.
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#43Switched away from Postman to a native Mac app and my RAM couldn't be happier ( https://paw.cloud )
Now that they're maintaining versions based on web technologies and are now just a cog in the VC Funded RapidAPI machine, are you concerned that makes the writing on the wall for the native Mac app?
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#44Why should I use this over https://hoppscotch.io ?
how secure is hoppscotch.io?
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#45Be careful with Postman. It seems they upload all your secrets to their servers. We stopped to use it a time ago. I don't know if they changed in this regard.
How else would they sync all of the shared stuff in your workspace? I'm more interested if they properly encrypt my data in transit and at rest and whether Postman employees have free access to our secrets.
I got a bulletin from our security team saying Postman stores it all in plain text on their servers. Unbelievable if true. Haven't used it since. They have all your passwords.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
How else would they sync all of the shared stuff in your workspace? I'm more interested if they properly encrypt my data in transit and at rest and whether Postman employees have free access to our secrets.
I got a bulletin from our security team saying Postman stores it all in plain text on their servers. Unbelievable if true. Haven't used it since. They have all your passwords.
I had this gut feeling, but no way to check. The handling of secrets is not explicitly states, i.e probably bad.
I like the looks of httpie’s new desktop client but no idea if their secret handling is any better.
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#47My favorite testing HTTP Client is still just the IntelliJ built-in, pure text. You know exactly what you send without having to navigate menus and whatnot. In the end, 99% of HTTP requests are just that, text.
And it fits nicely into git!
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#48My favorite testing HTTP Client is still just the IntelliJ built-in, pure text. You know exactly what you send without having to navigate menus and whatnot. In the end, 99% of HTTP requests are just that, text.
Can you chain requests together? Like if a request requires auth it will invoke login then take the token for use in the next request.
I haven't used it myself, but there is an option to parse responses with JavaScript and set variables.
GET https://httpbin.org/get
> {%
client.global.set("my_cookie", response.headers.valuesOf("Set-Cookie")[0]);
%}
Re: Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
#49I switched to insomnia when postman changed their pricing pulling the rug out from everyone wanting us to pay like $300 more per month. (Before they back tracked) https://insomnia.rest/ I actually prefer it.
I have been using Thunder client in vs code. Love not having another app. Postman is horrible now.
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#50My biggest gripe with Postman is the horrible theming. Except for light and dark, 0 control over the appearance of this app that I have to look at for hours almost every day.
You don't have to put up with postman. There are better alternatives.