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

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Post by canadev »

SixSigma wrote: post #84

"no more fiddling with the command line" If you have to fiddle with the command line, you're doing it wrong. It drives us nuts in the Plan9 community that Bash history and readline is seen as some sort of productivity tool. We have powerful shell primitives but the command line is seen as the last resort of composing them. Admittedly we have a terminal window with which you can edit text in two dimensions but use a p…

> It drives us nuts in the Plan9 community that Bash history and readline is seen as some sort of productivity tool.

I don't understand what this means, can you explain?

I personally have a .bash_profile (more generally, a collection of dot files) in a git repo that I share between machines. I also find myself using Meta-. and CTRL-R quite frequently.

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

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Post by techaddict009 »

mlni wrote: post #126
abritishguy wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are lots of things that you can do easily with postman but would be difficult with a CLI tool.

Chrome dev tools make testing RESTful backends with curl very easy: right-click on a request in network panel and choose "Copy as curl". Priceless little gem.

Can you explain this?

I would really be happy if there is any tool which give option "Copy as curl" !

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

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Post by threepointone »

techaddict009 wrote: post #134
mlni wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome dev tools make testing RESTful backends with curl very easy: right-click on a request in network panel and choose "Copy as curl". Priceless little gem.

Can you explain this? I would really be happy if there is any tool which give option "Copy as curl" !

https://i.imgur.com/sBGycyF.png

(would give - curl 'https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css?Iufnib6nCakqGh6wo0m6' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.116 Safari/537.36' --compressed )

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

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Post by alex440 »

I tried postman and found it rather weird. What did not suit me: problems with remembering history - i'd expect the much labored-at settings and vars and options to be stored in the cloud and not vanish if I re-install the extension or use other machine. no custom cookies - that's a deal breaker.

I prefer the excellent Fiddler tool for manual fiddling, and yet have to find a good test-suit tool. Or write it myself...

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

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Post by untog »

SixSigma wrote: post #109
andkon wrote: post #97

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Totally agreed. Another benefit (or set of benefits): when you've got 5 CLI tabs open already, and you're trying to remember where your curl response went, it's nice to know Postman has (a) history of recent requests in a readily clickable list, (b) a different window that's easily accessible, and (c) any saved headers and tokens that I can otherwise never remember.

Like Tesla said "if you thought a bit more, you wouldn't have to sweat so much" All of those would be eliminated with preparation and planning. And the results would be better quality than ad hoc poking with Bash

Yeah, if we all prepared and planned perfectly for absolutely everything we do in life then we probably would need less assistance.

Meanwhile, in the real world, sometimes things have to be done fast and messily.

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

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Post by lttlrck »

SixSigma wrote: post #117
felipesabino wrote: post #94

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I agree that CLI are awesome and you can do way more using it that with any other UI (specially a web one), but taking HTTP API testing as an example, postman lets you do a bunch of stuff that are so simple with one click that I can see some people not wanting to dive in the CLI world, write a bunch of stuff and also having to store environment data for requests with extra files (I think thats where the 'difficult' f…

None of those things are intractable, I have had scripts handle them all. On top of that, writing scripts educates you on how such systems work. It really isn't challenging.

Care to share them? It sounds like a lot of people would like to use them instead of Postman.

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

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Post by SixSigma »

untog wrote: post #137
SixSigma wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like Tesla said "if you thought a bit more, you wouldn't have to sweat so much" All of those would be eliminated with preparation and planning. And the results would be better quality than ad hoc poking with Bash

Yeah, if we all prepared and planned perfectly for absolutely everything we do in life then we probably would need less assistance. Meanwhile, in the real world, sometimes things have to be done fast and messily.

Testing http:// services is not one of those things
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