Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman

Post by aliqot » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 3:18 PM UTC

apocalyptic0n3 wrote: post #39

judge2020 wrote: post #28

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One thing I love from Insomnia.rest is the ability to import CURL commands, including an entire list of newline-delimited CURL commands from the clipboard. This makes it easier to modify XHR's you pulled from your browser via a right click -> "copy all as cURL (bash)".

Postman can do this as well. I've been using this a bunch recently due to some project limitations and it has made life so much easier. ETA: I just tried the functionality on Insomnia and I have to admit the UX is nicer. Just paste into the URL bar. Whereas with Postman it's CMD+O, Click on "Raw Text", click in textarea, paste, press import. Insomnia looks to have added OpenAPI support too (it was missing it last tim…

Post by aliqot » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 3:21 PM UTC

Cederfjard wrote: post #70

pletnes wrote: post #46

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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.

This is from their website: https://www.postman.com/trust/security/ > Depending upon its sensitivity classification, customer data is AES-256-GCM encrypted at the server-side before storage. Postman environment variables are covered in this classification and we strongly encourage you to use them to store your authentication keys and passwords. We have also added sessions in the 6.2 release onwards of Postman. We rec…

Post by progre » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 3:29 PM UTC

Post by Version467 » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 3:34 PM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #25

I 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.

Post by avree » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

s_dev wrote: post #24

samschooler wrote: post #21

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Unless I'm mistaken, Paw isn't owned by MacPaw? It's an unrealted product with a one time purchase price.

There is some financial relationship there. You get PAW with a SetApp bundle that MacPaw sell as a subscription.