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Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by chuckadams »

fuzztester wrote: post #235
supportengineer wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

640K ought to be enough for anyone.

- Bill Gates. And: The world does not need more than 4 computers. -Ken Olsen, or someone (in the mainframe days). (Both are alleged / apocryphal quotes. :)

The second quote was "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers", and it's attributed to Thomas Watson of IBM saying it in 1943. The real quote is indeed from Watson, but in 1953, summarizing the sales projections of a specific model of machine, and noting that they actually sold 18 of them.

https://freakonomics.com/2008/04/our-daily-bleg-did-ibm-real...

Gates denies ever saying anything like the 640K quote, but it was possibly someone at Microsoft being salty about the 640K limit that IBM had imposed on the PC through its design.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by kiselitza »

drcongo wrote: post #258
kiselitza wrote: post #233

Ah, yes, the cloud-dependent tool that forces you to pay per seat and log in for any type of collaboration is down when their cloud provider is. Anyways, the folks have spoken, no need to double down. There are more than a dozen alternatives to it, and new ones are coming up. I'm helping build a new one. - Completely offline. - Gives the ability to build reusable blocks (headers, query params, etc) - Let's you docume…

A little bit of feedback, I could barely read any of the text in the interface as the contrast is almost zero and the font is unbelievably small. So I tried Cmd+ to zoom the interface, but nothing happened, so I tried Cmd, to open the settings to see if there was a zoom level or contrast setting, nothing happened. I like the idea of it, but it's totally unusable.

Hi! Thx for that. Can you please open an issue with a screenshot here: https://github.com/voidenhq/feedback

What you're saying doesn’t sound familiar whatsoever, but I'd really like to look more into it.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by moi2388 »

alabhyajindal wrote: post #196

Surprised to see no one's mentioned HTTPie yet. I reach out for their web app anytime I have to make a one off network request: https://httpie.io/app

Web app. The entire point here is using something local and not web based

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by sandreas »

rcarmo wrote: post #192

I stopped using Postman when it magically started connecting to a central server for… nothing useful, really. I have no idea why people would design software this way, especially a development tool that should work with any web server, under any network condition (including fully offline against localhost). Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations, or Python tests with requests to match against exp…

What about Bruno[1]?

1: https://www.usebruno.com/

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by ozim »

rcarmo wrote: post #192

I stopped using Postman when it magically started connecting to a central server for… nothing useful, really. I have no idea why people would design software this way, especially a development tool that should work with any web server, under any network condition (including fully offline against localhost). Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations, or Python tests with requests to match against exp…

People that want to make money on their software obviously.

Connecting to a license server is pretty much standard.

For Postman it is annoying because it was never explicitly stated and it seemed like they are cool kids making nice helpful app. But really they are in for money. Which is not bad have to say but the way they did it is bad.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by teaganga »

pjmlp wrote: post #218
rcarmo wrote: post #192

I stopped using Postman when it magically started connecting to a central server for… nothing useful, really. I have no idea why people would design software this way, especially a development tool that should work with any web server, under any network condition (including fully offline against localhost). Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations, or Python tests with requests to match against exp…

We went with a mix of curl, Invoke-WebRequest, favourite scripting language, HTTP files, IDE tooling, Insomina, after Postman went cloud online and became a forbidden tool on our systems. Also I am not counting that Insomina won't follow the same footsteps as Postman.

I wrote my own api invoker, https://placeholders.cc/api-invoker/, mainly because postman is slow, eats a ton of memory and it becomes more and more restrictive to non logged in users. In don't mind having an electron based application like open. but i hate to have 10 like it open in the same time.

Re: Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down

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Post by goku12 »

moi2388 wrote: post #263
alabhyajindal wrote: post #196

Surprised to see no one's mentioned HTTPie yet. I reach out for their web app anytime I have to make a one off network request: https://httpie.io/app

Web app. The entire point here is using something local and not web based

It is a CLI app. I didn't even know that they had added a web frontend to it. Try this: https://httpie.io/cli
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