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Re:Just Use Curl by hypeatei on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @09:18AM (#45655397)
I mean, the article did say:

  It doesn't need to render a fucking Chromium instance to make a web request. It doesn't depend on a service to run. It doesn't require an "Enterprise" subscription for basic features.
So I'd say it meets all of the criteria except being on your machine already.
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Re:Just Use Curl by millerm on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:36AM (#45656374)
Yup. Article mentioned `jq` as well. That's an external tool (and so is cURL if we are all being honest here).
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Re:Just Use Curl by bravetraveler on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:22AM (#45656196)
Their words, not mine; the first header: "It's already on your machine". We can belabor it, but the domain is 'justuse'. No room for 'except' [unless you're reasonable, of course].

The 'egregious' things are charging to share what will fit very well in SCM (preventing real automation)... and breaking due to Online First/only. It makes sense to require the endpoint I'm talking to. Why would Postman need AWS/us-east-1 [0] for a completely unrelated API? Joyful rent-seeking.

cURL, your suggestion (hurl), or HTTPie all make far more sense. Store what they need in the place where you already store stuff. Profit, for free: never go down. Automate/take people out of the button-pushing pattern for a gold star.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45645172

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