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by penagwin 2354 days 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.

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It's all REST these days, sometimes with JSON payloads. Nothing too hard to mangle together.