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What's the issue with an extension?
I don't particularly enjoy a VC-fueled project having ability to intercept all my browser traffic to handle CORS.
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But you raised VC funding right? Insomnia was an alternative to Postman, raised VC funds, eventually needed to justify that, and suddenly accounts mattered more. They're currently on the same trajectory. Insomnia is open source but just like OP experienced, a single update can do damage and it takes time for the community to react. Is this the same company that raised? If so, are you exempt from that? Have you figure…
If it's just a "glorified curl UI" what's the problem? Just use curl, or build your own, if it's so trivial. You are kicking the tires awfully hard for a solution to a problem you claim is easy.
What do others think?
Learn and use curl, then you won’t have any issues like this. You can make some scripts in Python or something, too. I say this because the last three tools I used for this all got shitty (postman, insomnia, and thunder client).
I would rather cycle thorough tools than deal with piss poor user experience of something like that.
I've really been enjoying HTTPie: https://httpie.io/ Postman has long been too bloated to be useful.
On windows I even got to enjoy using Invoke-WebRequest directly. Extremely useful since powershell has structured output and input.
> Any alternatives that I can migrate to? If it works for your use case: writing integration tests. I used Postman in the past but I never really got the point of "storing" queries beyond the history. I think if you have that need it means it's time to write a frontend to call your endpoints, or use integration tests.
You can do all that directly in the language, of course, but by the time you go through the trouble of pretty printing the output, parametrizing the input, etc, you’ve reimplemented a less ergonomic version of Postman-and-similar.
(Not saying you’re wrong for doing it your way, but explaining why others might choose a different approach.)
So they quickly followed what their competitor Insomnia did recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37680126 Related "Ask HN: Alternatives to Insomnia?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37691914 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37725326
Postman did it first, unless I'm missing something.
I've really been enjoying HTTPie: https://httpie.io/ Postman has long been too bloated to be useful.
Also we were looking for HTTP/2 support which neither Postman not HTTPie have and found xh which is a HTTPie clone in Rust.
I've really been enjoying HTTPie: https://httpie.io/ Postman has long been too bloated to be useful.
I would really like to see Chrome offering an alternative to Postman. For me, it feels natural, to have everything in one place. What do others think?