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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 a85 »

SimonW43 wrote: post #67
a85 wrote: post #50

Thanks for the great comments everyone. Postman developer here. Woke up to find the link at the top of HN. Feels awesome. :)

Thanks for the great tool. First I thought "Damn, that's no news. I use it for ages ...", but some things are worth to be reminded of from time to time.

Haha. You are welcome!

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

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Post by SixSigma »

"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 proper set of tools with a bit of forethought and you get much more done.

If you need an oauth client, write one with a few bits of script and use it everywhere. It's the Unix way.

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

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Post by SixSigma »

abritishguy wrote: post #77
stock_toaster wrote: post #16

I 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.

I doubt that completely, citation needed.

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

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Post by hasancc »

I've been using it for quite a while now. I'm ashamed to say that it's simplistic approach on collections often made me question the urgency of writing API documentation when developing a private API. Why not just send the collection of examples? Well, we all know why but still...

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

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Post by wickedOne »

dfc wrote: post #52
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.

you might want to give restclient a go: been using it nearly daily for the last year and am quite happy with it. http://restclient.net/

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

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

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…

What would you recommend in terms of resources for learning the things you've mentioned?
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