Thanks for the great comments everyone. Postman developer here. Woke up to find the link at the top of HN. Feels awesome. :)
Thanks for your effort; the tool is fantastic! We use it every day for working with API's.
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Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#72Our team's been using this for about 6 months as a regular part of our workflow. I now lean on it heavily while developing JSON APIs
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#73Great tool we use during development of our REST APIs. Liking the collections for testing regressions too.
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#74Also would take a look at SoapUI if you are dealing with multi step flows: http://www.soapui.org
Perhaps the worst software I have ever used.
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#75I prefer cli tools for api driving/testing, and httpie[1] works pretty well for that. [1]: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
I like httpie but the app can do a lot more than sending requests now (which you might not be able to do in a CLI tool). You can write tests and run a bunch of requests together to simulate different scenarios: http://www.getpostman.com/docs/jetpacks_writing_tests .
Here's a library in Haskell if you are inclined to do this with an embedded domain-specific language instead:
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#76Thanks for the great comments everyone. Postman developer here. Woke up to find the link at the top of HN. Feels awesome. :)
Great job! Really useful tool.
On a side note, it's interesting how, though you posted postman on HN a couple of times before, it hit the front page only now.
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#77I prefer cli tools for api driving/testing, and httpie[1] works pretty well for that. [1]: https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
There are lots of things that you can do easily with postman but would be difficult with a CLI tool.
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#78Thanks for the great comments everyone. Postman developer here. Woke up to find the link at the top of HN. Feels awesome. :)
Thanks for that great tool! You're my firebug for API's.
Re: Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
#79Great tool, added to toolchain.
If you never came across Firefox Tamper Data Add-on, this might be a great opportunity to mention it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tamper-data/
A different tool, yet targeting similar audience (us).