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

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536 points helloguillecl | 4 comments | 20 Oct 25 15:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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pjio ◴[21 Oct 25 05:22 UTC] No.45652712[source]▶
Question: Do I miss something by not using Postman? My alternatives for development are "Edit and Resend" of a request (in Firefox) and plain old curl scripts for reusable examples.
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1. Mashimo ◴[21 Oct 25 06:09 UTC] No.45652942[source]▶
We use it a bit at our company. We have a collection file that includes a ton of requests with headers and body. Developers can with ease load that collection file and run it against their own server, and also quickly change to a different server with just a click.

I guess a substitution would be a git repo with curl scripts and environment variables?

We also have some non-tech people who use postman to run tests.

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2. skylurk ◴[21 Oct 25 06:20 UTC] No.45652994[source]▶
> I guess a substitution would be a git repo with curl scripts and environment variables?

Yep, and works well for us.

3. homebrewer ◴[21 Oct 25 06:42 UTC] No.45653111[source]▶
A closer replacement would be https://hurl.dev or the HTTP client built in to every JetBrains IDE + <https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-cli.html#tes...>, depending on what other tools your org uses.
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4. lostmsu ◴[21 Oct 25 10:58 UTC] No.45654441[source]▶
+1 to .http file support in JetBrains and VS proper