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

Depending on your usage, you may not need a separate app. Jetbrains[0], Visual Studio[1] and VSCode[2] have support for http files.

[0]: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/test/http-file...

[2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

A lot of organizations have very large suites of postman collections that serve as API documentation, regression and QA testing… they often heavily rely on the postman Javascript libraries and have custom code embedded directly in the collection.

Last time I checked, they don’t support the exact same format in each product.

Thus, we stick with hurl.

QA seems to stick to robot framework instead. Some use Bruno.

In our case, some non-devs use http apis too, notably QA. Bruno currently fills that role.

The vscore one is a plugin from some random person, to be called built in

TIL about .http files. Thank you :)

Converted a bunch stuff just laying in my shell history into actual actionable files finally :D

Insert xkcd 2347 here.