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Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by dfc »

uuid_to_string wrote: post #46

Our current testing utilities are relatively small and compile with modest amounts of RAM. Hobbit's netcat, WR Stevens' sock, etc. We have security auditing rules that require us to compile the programs we run from source. We prefer small programs as they are easier to audit. Does anyone know how much RAM is required to compile Chromium? Can it be done on a laptop?

Do you have to compile everything from source, e.g. gcc, glibc, etc? There is no need to get into the whole "reflections on trusting trust" spiel, but I imagine at some point you must rely on your distro? Just use the chromium package from your distro. If not why not build on a desktop/server and copy package to laptop?

Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by dfc »

mikegioia wrote: post #2

I auditioned about 10 different Chrome/Firefox extensions to send HTTP requests and this was by far the best one. It's clean, simple to use, and handles auth really well.

Do you remember your favorite for firefox? I have never found one that I was very happy with.

Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by dfc »

te_chris wrote: post #19

I use Rested, it's a simple, cheap, mac app and works great. http://www.helloresolven.com/portfolio/rested/ EDIT: Why the hell was I downvoted for suggesting a good app? goddammit...

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Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by a85 »

hdra wrote: post #32
solox3 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Believe it or not, Postman was better (used to run inside a tab instead of its own window) Edit: here it is, both the extension (tab) and the packaged app (window): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/postman?hl=en

Yes, I know about that POSTMAN used to run inside a tab, but it seems to have been abandoned for quite some time. I still have it installed, but it still telling to to 'upgrade' to the packaged app. That Postman extension that you linked, I actually didn't know about this before, but that doesn't seems like something provided by the original developer. Any idea whats the story behind it? EDIT: Nevermind, just Googled…

The earlier app ran as a "legacy" Chrome app. Chrome has deprecated those style of apps and it's not accepting new submissions for legacy apps. I can only push updates now. The newer style Chrome apps run in a sandbox and have access to better APIs. This allows Postman to have features like collection runner, test scripts, OAuth 2 etc. Unfortunately, window management is a bit screwed up and am hoping support improves there from Chrome's side.

Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by a85 »

greenbee wrote: post #10

I've been using Postman for a while. Overall, very impressed as it was intuitive straight from the first use. However, when putting files in a post request, it doesn't remember the files for you. Also, there is no way to stop an ongoing request besides resetting and clearing all the parameters. I really hope they would accommodate these options in the future.

There is now a new Chrome API which can help remember files. Looking into it right now.

Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by viig99 »

vtempest wrote: post #5

I've been using this for a while. I wish it had the feature of logging the http requests going on currently, similar to other addons or Wireshark.

Postman comes with an interceptor which basically saves all the API request to postman while you are browsing through your site, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-intercepto...

How to use it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxf-o_DLSLw

Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by andeh89 »

We've been using Postman for a while now, it's invaluable for testing/validating APIs across our environments. One feature we've been waiting a long time for however is live collection sharing; to have a centralized set of endpoints/etc that's kept updated and synchronized (without needing everyone to export and import JSON files). There's a feature request on GitHub but it's been in stasis for a long time now.

Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by jamra »

andeh89 wrote: post #58

We've been using Postman for a while now, it's invaluable for testing/validating APIs across our environments. One feature we've been waiting a long time for however is live collection sharing; to have a centralized set of endpoints/etc that's kept updated and synchronized (without needing everyone to export and import JSON files). There's a feature request on GitHub but it's been in stasis for a long time now.

why not use something like zookeeper or etcd to sync your config files?

Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services

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Post by andeh89 »

jamra wrote: post #59
andeh89 wrote: post #58

We've been using Postman for a while now, it's invaluable for testing/validating APIs across our environments. One feature we've been waiting a long time for however is live collection sharing; to have a centralized set of endpoints/etc that's kept updated and synchronized (without needing everyone to export and import JSON files). There's a feature request on GitHub but it's been in stasis for a long time now.

why not use something like zookeeper or etcd to sync your config files?

Interesting, I'll have a look into whether that's possible with the current client (my understanding was that Collections don't detect or update changes unless you explicitly make any yourself). Still, ideally this is something that'd be very handy to have as a core feature within the app (author has looked into Google Drive integration in the past)
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