It's gotten even worse when they moved completely to the cloud like a year or two ago! You now can't use it without making a Postman account, and all your API collections are stored on their servers :) Absolutely no security risks here, API endpoints of in-development systems aren't a massive attack vector at all !!

We had to ban the whole tool at my company, the alternative of choice is Bruno because it's at least completely local when you install it.

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victorz 2 points a year ago

How so

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30p87 2 points a year ago

Because it's awful

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victorz 2 points a year ago

What makes you say that though... What specifically about it do you find awful? I prefer xh on the off times I need to test an API, but I remember sometimes it was nice to be able to save API calls as a set, like in the GUI programs.

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30p87 1 point a year ago

Pretty much everything said on the website... I'm a hardcore cli, max. tui user. Using electron is torture.

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expr 1 point a year ago

API calls can be saved as a set with curl too. It's called folders (or in my case, shell scripts where each call is a bash function).

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PokerChips 2 points a year ago

Kind of like Ruby on Rails

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brian 4 points a year ago

things like oauth, binary websockets, loads of headers, etc all are way worse in curl than others. postman is terrible but there are plenty of other gui/cli options

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jjjalljs 1 point a year ago

I offer a compromise of using python's requests library. It's got most of the listed benefits, but I like python better than shell scripting.

It's weird that I've been seeing job posts that list postman as a required skill. It's not great.

I did use "Bruno" for a while to have a GUI for making requests. It was fine.

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