Create and send any HTTP request using the Postman request builder

Talking with APIs makes more fun using Postman Show archive.org snapshot . As an alternative you can also use command line tools like cURL.

snap install postman

How does it help me?

Emanuel

Last edit

10 months ago

Dominik Schöler

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How to send HTTP requests using cURL

Reading a URL via GET:
```
curl http://example.com/
```
Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT):
```
curl http://example.com/users/1 -XPUT
```

Sending data with a request:

curl http://example.com/users -d"first_name=Bruce&last_nam...

Generally, Selenium tests use the browser to interact with the page. If it's unavailable, a timeout error is thrown.

Now, consider a scenario like this:

@javascript
Scenario: Receive an e-mail after clicking the fancy link...

You probably know that you can use CSS selectors to match against elements and their attributes, such as:

a[title] { /* any <a> that has a "title" */ }
a[data-fancy="true"] { /* any <a> that has their "data-fancy" attribute set to "true" *...

Posted by Emanuel to makandra dev (2016-02-26 06:51)