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

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Post by m_sahaf »

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.

Allow me to introduce you to Hurl: https://hurl.dev/

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

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Post by bdangubic »

m_sahaf wrote: post #281
pjmlp wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Allow me to introduce you to Hurl: https://hurl.dev/

or you can just use curl :)

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

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Post by gregorvand »

sandreas wrote: post #264
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/

+ 1. I just came across it a few months ago after getting fed up with Postman's unintuitive ever-changing UI, etc. So far so good. Easy to store bruno files in a repo to have a nice easy place to go to get test calls

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

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Post by chrysoprace »

jug wrote: post #36

This could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app in your terminal tab. Boggles my mind how even this kind of app manages to bring in Electron and the cloud. Edit: Ah, so here it is: https://posting.sh

Posting has been the most lucrative option for me so far, but it'll take me some time to get used to the keybindings.

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

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Post by jamiepond »

Crestwave wrote: post #147
ray_v wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a really great concept and I could see how one could get used to the workflow with this! But, why such low stats on github?! I guess everyone is jamming on postman, eh?

If you take a peek at the commit history [1], you'll see that the project started only last week with some very vague commit messages. The code is also quite messy and unoptimized. It's a cool project but not exactly industry-level software. [1] https://github.com/jamierpond/yapi

will be tidying/optimising as i use it more. PRs are welcome! this is totally a tool i made just for me, to solve my problems. hopefully other people like it too.

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

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Post by gschier »

12345hn6789 wrote: post #275
gschier wrote: post #21

This is exactly why I made Yaak [1]. It's fully offline, no telemetry, open source, and can even sync with Git. https://yaak.app

Hey Greg! Can you clarify that building from source and using in a commerical environment is permissable under the MIT license? I have built from source and yet the program is under "trial mode" currently and looks to have a 30 day ticker of doom. Is this a bug? Is there a flag missing? I cannot find any detailed instructions on setting flags or environment variables to turn this off. Thanks!

How are you running it? The code for the license management and badge are not included by default when running "npm start" or "npm run app-build".

And yes, you can indeed run the OSS yourself for commercial purposes.

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

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Post by 12345hn6789 »

gschier wrote: post #286
12345hn6789 wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Greg! Can you clarify that building from source and using in a commerical environment is permissable under the MIT license? I have built from source and yet the program is under "trial mode" currently and looks to have a 30 day ticker of doom. Is this a bug? Is there a flag missing? I cannot find any detailed instructions on setting flags or environment variables to turn this off. Thanks!

How are you running it? The code for the license management and badge are not included by default when running "npm start" or "npm run app-build". And yes, you can indeed run the OSS yourself for commercial purposes.

I built a binary using the `tauri.release.conf.json` as my config file

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

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Post by az09mugen »

sandreas wrote: post #264
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/

+1 also. More than being open source and local, you can import your postman requests. It's almost 1:1.

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

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Post by MzHN »

sandreas wrote: post #264
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/

I desperately want to like Bruno, since I think it might not do the same rugpull as Postman and Insomnia.

But the UX is just terrible (for me) or at least has been every time I've tried to start using it more.

I mean, come on, the most basic use of creating a request goes like this:

1. Sorry, can't let you create a request before you create a collection.

2. Sorry, can't let you create a collection before you make a decision on in which path you will be storing all your collections.

3. Sorry, can't let you create a request before you think of a good name for it.

etc.

Like what the heck? This should be just one click to create a new untitled request then fill in the URL and send.

At first I thought this might be growing pains since it was new but every year I try it and it hasn't improved.

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