What alternative to ‘postman’ do you like the most for simply testing a bunch of REST services?

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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        How so? I recently switched to it from Postman and haven’t heard much negative about it yet.

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          Don’t get me wrong, it’s still pretty good and I do prefer it to Postman. I just dislike the amount of extra features and weird Insomnia account stuff they have been adding the past few years. When it first came out I loved it for its simplicity, and I feel like that’s being lost.

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    Until I saw the sub I thought this was going to be a question about what to call the postal officer now that we live in a modern society where women are trusted to stuff letterboxes as well as men. Postie is of course the answer to that.

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    Curl. Or if I need to chain stuff together for auth reasons or whatever, sometimes ill just pop into a python virtualenv and use requests

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      I want it free and open source and easy.

      They are getting more and more agressive with their paid services and so my guts have informed me that the end is near ;-)

      I have seen the same happening with Soapui before: suddenly nobody was using it anymore.

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      Same.

      Maybe my usecases are extremely basic. And all their Pro features are just bells and whistles that doesn’t affect me but I hope someone does find value out of it.

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      Same here, absolutely love being able to write HTTP requests like code! With the auto completion I’m 10x faster writing requests than using Postman or Insomnia. You can define multiple requests in one file and execute them like a script. There’s also a templating feature which you can use for different environments.

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    I used to use Paw, but it’s only available on OS X. It’s a shame because it has the single best variable/templating system I’ve ever used. Since I prefer a cross platform and ideally open source solution though I’ve switched to Insomnia. It’s not quite as good as Paw, but I can actually use it on Windows and Linux unlike Paw.

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      My day job is in OSX so, Paw user checking in. Very nice UI…