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While testing APIs, curl and postman both are powerful weapons in a developer's arsenal. Released for the first time in 1997, curl has come a long way and has helped thousands of developers in testing APIs. It is used for transferring data to or from a server. It supports a wide range of protocols, DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, and TFTP. According to the curl man page, it "is designed to work without user interaction." It uses the syntax, curl [options] [URL...]. The command, curl https://mgtheboss.blogspot.com/ will fetch the contents of the home page of this site on command prompt (or terminal, if you are on a linux machine). The URL syntax is protocol dependent. Multiple URLs can be specified as, http://site.{one, two, three}.com. Sequences of alphanumeric series can be provided using [], for instance, ftp://ftp.example.com/file[1-100].txt . It does not support nested sequences but sequences can be provided next to each other. Here is an example, http://example.com/archive[1996-1999]/vol[1-4]/part{a,b,c}.html. Any number of URLs can be provided. "They will be fetched in a sequential manner in the specified order." A step counter can be provided to get every n-th number or letter, as an example, http://example.com/file[1-100:10].txt. If a URL is provided without protocol:// prefix, the curl command will attempt to guess the protocol. It defaults to HTTP but tries other protocols based on "often-used" hostname prefixes. For instance, if the hostname starts with "ftp.", curl will decide the protocol is FTP. The command attempts to reuse connections in case of multiple file transfers and so getting many files from the same server will not require multiple connects or handshakes. It allows the command to operate with high speed. The command displays a progress meter that indicates "the amount of transferred data", speed of the transfer, and estimated time left, among others. "The progress meter displays the number of bytes and the speeds are in bytes per second. The suffixes (k, M, G, T, P) are 1024 based. For example, 1k is 1024 bytes. 1M is 1048576 bytes." By default data is displayed on the terminal, disabling the progress meter, to avoid a mixup between response data and progress meter. If you prefer a progress meter for HTTP post or put requests, the response output needs to be redirected to a file. In the case of FTP upload, it's not required as there is no response data. If you would like to see a progress bar and not a meter you can use the option -# or --progress-bar. Curl for supported operating systems can be downloaded from the official download page. On the other hand, postman is a gui-based application that is used for API testing and is a favorite of developers. It's free and easy-to-use, supports all APIs and schemas, extensible, and has a vibrant and vast community. Postman is available for download on the official download page. A curl command can be easily imported to postman. Please open postman, click on import tab (you will find it on the upper left), select the paste raw text option, paste the curl command, and then click on import. The curl command will get imported to the builder.
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