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Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

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Post by helloanoop »

PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote: post #90
helloanoop wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly!

Sorry to deluge you, I found another UI bug. if you rename a collection with existing requests in it, the result will be two collections, 1 with the new name and 1 with the old name. The new name will have all the requests as expected. The old name will be a "ghost" collection, you can't seem to do anything with it, including rename it again. If you close bruno and re-open, the old named collection will be gone.

I see. If you don't mind, can you post an issue here on our github tracker - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno and any screenshots of the issue

> if you rename a collection with existing requests in it

I am assuming you are renaming directly using the filesystem. I think this is the is issue you are talking about - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/28

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#92

Post by PH95VuimJjqBqy »

helloanoop wrote: post #91
PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to deluge you, I found another UI bug. if you rename a collection with existing requests in it, the result will be two collections, 1 with the new name and 1 with the old name. The new name will have all the requests as expected. The old name will be a "ghost" collection, you can't seem to do anything with it, including rename it again. If you close bruno and re-open, the old named collection will be gone.

I see. If you don't mind, can you post an issue here on our github tracker - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno and any screenshots of the issue > if you rename a collection with existing requests in it I am assuming you are renaming directly using the filesystem. I think this is the is issue you are talking about - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/issues/28

It was via the UI, I'll do that tomorrow when I'm back on my work laptop.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#93

Post by byyll »

PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote: post #4

what alternatives exist? I literally just switched to insomnia due to postman doing this so I'm a bit stuck now. Do I go back to fiddler?

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno, https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch, https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

If you want a more minimal solution/CLI https://github.com/httpie/cli and https://github.com/ducaale/xh work

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#94

Post by fosk »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #9
altairprime wrote: post #5

This is the first I’ve ever heard of Insomnia. Here’s missing context that a blog post about this could have included, to save everyone paging through yet another GitHub issue FP. Insomnia 8.0.0-rc1 was released today: https://insomnia.rest/changelog The business that ships this codebase is migrating all instances from cloud-optional to cloud-required: > The challenge is that we cannot continue to offer a great produ…

Even worse, before you could use it without an account. Now it locks you out of your data after the update. You need to create an account to get back your data.

Here is a video that shows how to get access to your data without an account. https://www.loom.com/share/de7af6f9e06b4452a799a033604f9270?...

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#95

Post by hpincket »

relium wrote: post #70

This sucks beyond belief. The whole reason I moved to Insomnia from Postman was because Postman uploaded all of our APIs and credentials to their server without asking. I have clients that demand privacy - we can't even discuss the existence of their APIs outside the company.

Do you have any details on the equivalent Postman change? How long ago did Postman force users to create an account? I found this github issue, but I'm not sure if it's what everyone keeps referencing.

https://github.com/postmanlabs/postman-app-support/issues/12...

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#97

Post by pseudalopex »

helloanoop wrote: post #54

Try Bruno - https://github.com/usebruno/bruno - Free and Opensource IDE for exploring and testing APIs - It is lightweight with MIT license - Bruno stores your collections directly in a folder on your filesystem - Use git for collaboration - No cloud sync. Fully offline. PS: I am the creator of this project

> Fully offline.

There is telemetry. And I didn't find opt in or even opt out code.

> lightweight

Could you quantify? I never saw a lightweight Electron app.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#98

Post by pseudalopex »

joeyhage wrote: post #16

Restfox [1] has a similar UI to insomnia and works well. Not affiliated with Restfox [1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

Restfox has analytics with no opt out currently for anyone who cares.[1]

[1] https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/issues/62

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#99

Post by pseudalopex »

jicea wrote: post #62
JambalayaJim wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotta just use curl

You can use Hurl [1] an open source CLI tool based on plain text and libcurl! (I'm one of the maintainer) [1]: https://hurl.dev

Does it make any requests not directed by the user? Undisclosed telemetry is common in this space unfortunately.

Re: Insomnia REST client now requires an account

#100

Post by fosk »

So. Much. Noise.

An update on Insomnia 8.x here:

* Insomnia can be used locally-only with Scratch Pad.

* Insomnia can be used with an account without sharing any data using Git Sync (the data is in your Git repository, wherever that is hosted).

* Insomnia can be used with an account and without Git Sync in a fully end-to-end encrypted way (E2EE). Nobody can read your data.

* Insomnia stores your account information in Auth0, which is ISO27001, SOC 2 Type II, ISO27018, HIPAA BAA, Gold CSA STAR, PCI and GDPR compliant.

* The data is not automatically migrated anywhere unless an account is created, as clearly explained in the onboarding that users have to approve in order to get access to the product.

* Insomnia can be used for Free with an account.

Unlike Postman, we are fully E2EE on every plan, local Scratch Pad is still there, Git is always an option when having an account.

On top of this, we have shipped today 100s of features for real time collaboration, unlimited collaborators in the Free plan when working on one project, organizations, RBAC, EE SSO, multi-client support for everyone, and so on [1]

Finally, here is a video that shows how to use Insomnia locally: https://www.loom.com/share/de7af6f9e06b4452a799a033604f9270?...

Trying to put some clarity in the noise. If you find any of these statements which is factually incorrect, please point them out.

[1] - https://konghq.com/blog/product-releases/insomnia-8-0

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