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No, the default API tooling that comes to my mind is curl.
Obligatory: https://justuse.org/curl/
Everything except my random podman container I need to test something on, but for some reason will have wget lmao.
Also a good time to mention you can use
Ctrl+x Ctrl+eto edit your multi line commands in your default terminal editor so you can keep a clean, line separated command which is easy to read and follow.Is your container using BusyBox? if so, then it's not even real
wget, it's just the disgusting awful busybox version.God I hate BusyBox.
Okey,
Ctrl+x Ctrl+eis super cool. I did not know about that! Thanks!I've used Postman et al. but I often default to PowerShell (because Windows) and a text file. It gives me everything I need from Postman without having to install or learn new tools.
Curl is nice but I miss the object orientation in my shell when I use *sh.
But then how did Postman became so popular - we can't deny it became the default.
Point and drool as opposed to learning cli commands.
CLI is so easy. You learn the basic concepts and can use thousands of tools.
curl is a very common tool. It's installed everywhere, probably also on the postman servers... lol
So did windows in the business world. Just because it's default doesn't mean it's the best option. People will take a pile of poop with a pretty veneer that does 90% of the work over the correct tool with a leaning curve.
But that was a good while ago. And it was not a cloud thing at the time it was popular.
There are many alternatives now.