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Curl is free man.

• yepthatsreality 7y ago
  Exactly my thoughts. Free and not that hard to use. I guess $96/yr is a good trade off for some UI?
• penagwin 7y ago
  I enjoy testing HTTP endpoints by bit-banging an ethernet cable so that I don't have to buy a computer. In all seriousness - Regardless of the solution Postman/Postwomen/Insomnia/Paw/etc - People use these tools so they can easily manipulate any part of their query, without needing to lookup curl flags and nuances. Serious question: How do you construct complex curl requests? Do you do it all on the command line? Or you do it in a text editor? If you want to change the field of a form for your post request, how quickly can you change it? Curl is a great tool, but for sandbox-like usage it's just too clunky of a UX IMO.
  • tus88 7y ago
    It's all REST these days, sometimes with JSON payloads. Nothing too hard to mangle together.
• chasingthewind 7y ago
  I'm not defending them in the least (see my post on yesterday's discussion) but Postman isn't just a UI over curl. The primary value add is the ability to organize groups of related requests and then run them as part of a test suite and assert against the outcomes. It's essentially a test tool for REST APIs that's accessible to a less technical audience.