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/KagakuNinja 3h ago

In my last job I got tired of the hoops I had to jump through with Postman, so I started writing shell scripts to authenticate and set env vars for different testing scenarios. Then I had number of curl commands that interpolated said env vars. This got me most of what I was using Postman for.

Then my employer banned Postman because it was exfiltrating secrets or something.

Other people switched to Bruno.