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Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by judge2020 on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:00AM (#33288070)
One thing I love from Insomnia.rest is the ability to import CURL commands, including an entire list of newline-delimited CURL commands from the clipboard. This makes it easier to modify XHR's you pulled from your browser via a right click -> "copy all as cURL (bash)".
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Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by apocalyptic0n3 on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:09AM (#33288159)
Postman can do this as well. I've been using this a bunch recently due to some project limitations and it has made life so much easier.

ETA: I just tried the functionality on Insomnia and I have to admit the UX is nicer. Just paste into the URL bar. Whereas with Postman it's CMD+O, Click on "Raw Text", click in textarea, paste, press import. Insomnia looks to have added OpenAPI support too (it was missing it last time I played with it) so maybe it's time to re-evaluate Insomnia

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Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by aliqot on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:18AM (#33288907)
Postman's UI is cluttered
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Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by apocalyptic0n3 on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:36PM (#33290767)
I don't disagree. I've just been using it for so long (8 or 9 years now I think) and it's so ingrained in my workflows that I haven't bothered to re-evaluate it in ages. This is probably the kick in the butt I needed.
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Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by aliqot on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:22PM (#33291334)
The world is your oyster, my friend. Restfox is pretty similar to Insomnia, which is what I use, so I'll probably give Restfox a shot and see about hosting my own instance on the LAN.
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Re:Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to... by donkeyd on Friday October 21, 2022 @10:04AM (#33288106)
Yup. Use this all the time, either when I want to automate something on an undocumented API, or if I want to do some basic security testing on API's at work.
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