Just Use Curl

Summary

Just use cURL What the fuck happened to making HTTP requests? You used to just type curl example.com and boom, you got your goddamn response. Now everyone's downloading 500MB Electron monstrosities that take 3 minutes to boot up just to send a fucking GET request. It's already on your machine, dipshit You know what's better than downloading Postman? Not downloading Postman. cURL is already installed on your machine. It's been there since forever. It works. It's fast. 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. It actually does everything Oh, you need to: Send POST requests? curl -X POST Add headers? curl -H "Header: value" Upload files? curl -F file=@file.txt Handle cookies? curl -c cookies.txt -b cookies.txt Follow redirects? curl -L Basic auth? curl -u user:pass OAuth? Yeah, it does that too. HTTP/2? HTTP/3? FTP? SFTP? SMTP? IMAP? POP3? LDAP? WebSocket? Fucking Gopher? Yes to all of it. Meanwhile Postman is over here asking you to create an account to sync your "collections" to the cloud. It's a fucking HTTP request, not your photo library. The UI/UX is perfect You know what has great UX? The command line you're already using. No clicking through 47 tabs. No "Workspaces." No "Environments" dropdown menu. Just type the fucking command. Your history is in your shell. Your "collections" are called shell scripts. Your "environments" are called environment variables, and they've existed since 1979. Want to save a request? Put it in a file. Want to share it with your team? It's text. Copy it. Paste it. Done. No JSON export/import bullshit. No proprietary formats. It's faster than your bloated piece of shit cURL executes in milliseconds. You know how long it takes Postman to start? Long enough to question your career choices. And don't even get me started on these new "modern" alternatives like Insomnia and HTTPie Desktop. Congratula...