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Opening the link I was hoping that this would be a postman with better support for file uploads. I have a long lived desired to be able to have postman request which embeds a file to upload. I really like postman features and UX but when I need a test suite for a file upload endpoint it doesn't match.

Tried several hacks to achieve to embed files but none worked. If the endpoint supported Content-Transfer-Encoding it would be kind of easy to do.

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If you're on macos, you want https://mmattozzi.github.io/cocoa-rest-client/

You don’t need a hack. I do it all of the time.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16015548/tool-for-sendin...

That doesn't work for the test runner, just for one time off requests. Just closing and opening postman it looses the file you had choosen.

Use the export functionality to create a script in your language of choice? (c#, Java, Curl, etc.)?

In my opinion that would defeat the purpose of the tool. I like to have a postman suite file that I can share... using other tools and integrations would kind of break that.

Postman best thing is that an easy enough tool for beginners and customizable enough to be a test suite for an API. The cost of leaving the tools for it's pretty high.

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