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mschuster91 • today at 6:31 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> People should be using curl + bash. It's a universal combination available almost everywhere.

They should but Bash escaping/encoding is nasty and most terminals have a hard time using the mouse to reliably edit a cURL command, especially if the last command didn't do a final "\n" output. And it gets oh so tiring when the "copy cURL" command includes about 1000 bytes worth of Cookie headers full of analytics garbage.

That's why Postman became a thing in the first place.


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liendolucas • today at 6:57 PM

Yes, that's true. You can suffer a lot escaping things out, but is also a valuable lesson! Not promoting those extreme cases, but many many times a few simple curl calls can save your day.