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I am always highly annoyed when someone has documentation for their web API and all that they provide is some postman collection of crap (or a crappy code examp
by FriedrichN 5y ago
I am always highly annoyed when someone has documentation for their web API and all that they provide is some postman collection of crap (or a crappy code example in an arbitrary language) and some vague abstract description of their API. Then I'll have to spend X amount of time on reverse engineering it to curl so I can see what's actually going on. Often I'll discover that they're doing really weird stuff (double base64 encoding for example) and that I'm the first to notice that it is weird. When I tell them I use curl they think I'm some hacker using some obscure tool.
Too many people in our field just take the first thing that works and they won't bother to actually look at it.
- dcminter 5y agoDoesn't Postman have a feature to allow exporting the request as curl and others though?
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- Gunax 5y agoSure, then they copy that nonsense command and send it to you, without really understanding what all of the options are, and just treating it like a magic blob. I could totally see myself doing this
- lanstin 5y agoI would rather have that magic blob if you need help making the request succeed than anything else in postman.