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More coming soon. Or not. I don’t owe you shit.
Command line escaping is an annoying son of a bitch and different rules apply depending if you’re using bash, cmd, powershell.
That’s why you shouldn’t use cmd or powershell. That and the fact that you’d have to install W*nd*ws in order to use them.
Edit: Too bad that all the downvoters didn’t leave a comment. Now I’ll never know if it was M*cr*s*ft employees on their anual works outing, or if you’re mad because I dared to use the W-word :D
String escaping sucks in bash and other posix-style shells too, though.
“Tru dat\!”
I rather deal with that than any Micro$oft® Garbage®.
That was a fun read! I don’t even know what Postman is but I do like curl :P
Be glad you don’t know what Postman is.
The only reason I bother is because some PMs want to use it.
Look at Bruno. Its open source, though I did get pay walled the other day and it pissed me off.
I thought this article was complaining about something that no-one used, but here you are recommending alternatives… alternatives that are not curl
Check out yaak, also open source no paywall. Built on Tauri so not a dumb electron app
Yaak has a commercial paywall if you use the pre-built binaries. You can easily build it yourself without licensing tho
Still has an open source version tho: https://www.usebruno.com/pricing
The few times I’ve used Postman, I found myself doing everything I needed in Python shortly afterwards. It’s not cURL, but it could easily be such; I prefer the self organized “text” interface of code.
You can pry
wgetfrom my cold, dead hands.they are different things, wget and curl do not have many overlapping use cases other than downloading stuff over http
This is such a weird article. Electron is not for making http requests, it’s for rendering web pages. Nothing within curl can render web pages. I’m not saying you should be using electron necessarily, but this is just so obviously wrong, what is the author thinking?
And (almost) any programming language has a built-in primitive for making http requests (possibly even using libcurl internally), why would I switch to a command line call if I can just do the http call directly with that primitive?
I think it’s a jab at Postman, which is essentially curl with a GUI.
Postman has Collection Runner tho, which is useful for people that like to dick around on a GUI and get their data harvested and used for AI training instead of writing their own script in Python.
As a daily curl user, this made me interested in trying out postman.
It will upload your credentials to the cLoUd and ask you for payment to do basic things. Completely enshittified.
There are less bloated alternatives I prefer. Like Bruno, which is easy/easier to version control.
Thanks for mentioning Bruno! It looks awesome. I haven’t tried it out, but I’m going to give it a shot today.
I just downloaded it, there’s even an appimage 😍
This is beautiful. I’ma send this to my coworkers.
With none other than…
Outlook. In HTML format. With a giant signature that includes an embedded image.
Also the image is a 2400px image that has been resized using width and height attributes.
Outlook.
Thankfully Thunderbird, although most folks here just use the Roundcube web client.
With a giant signature that includes an embedded image.
They are auto-generated and enabled for everyone. Typical corporate bullshit I guess.
Also the image is a 2400px image that has been resized using width and height attributes.
It’s a portrait (that thankfully has been downsized and compressed so much, that it’s barely recognizable (thank goodness, because it’s a horrific photo)), as well as a photo of my physical signature. Oh god do I hate emails and email signatures. And fuck my company for wanting emails to look “authentic” and including this stupid ass signature.
Oh lord, don’t tell me it’s also laid out with tables, too? 😭
nah im good lol
bruno seems decent
Somewhere in between is https://hurl.dev/index.html
That’s great. I like a GUI. I also do not like whatever postman is. So I have to suffer until I find something that works for me
Httpie desktop? Bruno https://www.usebruno.com/?
Bruno Looks interesting. I think the last time I read about it it was very new, I might need to give it another try. I hope it will not end up like postman or insomnia.
The first thing I see when opening the httpie app website is a “we now have ai” pop-up. So probably not that one.
Ah has ai made it to httpie now too? Shame.
Is there one of these for shell scripts over CI/CD frameworks?
It’s been awhile since I had to deal with web requests. Back then I used Postman (back when I still used Windows). Now I try to always get by using the simplest open source tools for the job so thanks for sharing, will try it out.
I knew of curl but always thought of it as a tool to play around when doing simple requests, never knew people go so far with it.
curl is obviously fantastic but for more complex ad-hoc requests I usually prefer httpie.
Bighead is not to be fucked with.
