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

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536 points helloguillecl | 3 comments | 20 Oct 25 15:40 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rcarmo ◴[21 Oct 25 06:56 UTC] No.45653174[source]▶
I stopped using Postman when it magically started connecting to a central server for… nothing useful, really. I have no idea why people would design software this way, especially a development tool that should work with any web server, under any network condition (including fully offline against localhost).

Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations, or Python tests with requests to match against expected responses.

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1. coldtea ◴[21 Oct 25 08:27 UTC] No.45653678[source]▶
>Now I just have a Makefile with a bunch of curl invocations

There are several FOSS command line tools that can do this easier, e.g. https://httpie.io/cli

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2. monerozcash ◴[21 Oct 25 10:15 UTC] No.45654216[source]▶
That syntax just seems slightly more confusing than curl, not easier except for very specific simple requests.
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3. coldtea ◴[21 Oct 25 11:30 UTC] No.45654587[source]▶
I find it's a more streamlined syntax, and has added-on stuff curl doesn't have to make rest testing easier, e.g. --session

Other than that, sure, mostly similar.