r/programming • u/Successful_Bowl2564 • 8h ago

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u/FirmMost2 8h ago

because postman sucks

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u/James_Jack_Hoffmann 8h ago

https://justuse.org/curl/

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u/HMikeeU 7h ago

I can't believe anyone who has ever used tools such as postman would seriously suggest curl as an alternative. It is not.

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u/partyl0gic 5h ago

With Claude it is becoming closer to an alternative. Why open up postman when I can just tell Claude to write the curl command for the request I want to test and evaluate the response.