The Best Way To Send HTTP Requests

In this video we'll cover HTTP Files. We'll learn more or less everything there is to know about them:
1. What are HTTP Files
2. What is the standard format
3. How to send HTTP requests via VSCode using the REST Client extension
4. How to define file variables
5. How to define environment variables
6. How to structure the HTTP requests inside a project

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[brandonbraner]

If you are using postman for single requests you are missing the power of it

[BBMG]

Wow! Will test it out on Monday. Looks, that it's the first time I really can get rid of Postman

[ehsangoodarzi]

hi Amichai, thanks for great content.

just an idea to make it better, it took for times to understand why my visual Studio doesn't recognize .HTTP like yours. and then I installed REST Client extension. now it works.




edit: you explained it, sorry my fault😂

[MacheteBang]

More of a vscode question, but is it possible to have multiple workspace settings files? I.e. i want one that has all the "public" settings and a second that has user / password in gitignore (but not in the "user" settings as they are shared across many projects.)

[Amr-Ibrahim-AI]

Thank you for the comprehensive video.
What's the software you use to add annotations to the video? I mean those neon-like rectangles and arrows.

[nirajchandrajoshi]

Thank you for this great content ❤.
I have just one question why you don’t use visual studio ? Or if I ask my question differently then how to use http files in visual studio and where to put token in global variables. Please help.

[Vietnamkid]

What do you do about storing tokens until they are needed? I use a secure workspace in postman.

[JordanHumbertodeSouza]

What about when you need to get the bearer token from request a response header? is there a way to update the env variable on the fly?

[tidus]

Are enviroment variables able to be handled the same way for .http files in Rider/VS aswell?

[joseluiseiguren]

How do you overwrite the token env variable from a login post request?
So you don't have to paste the token manually in the env variables file
Thanks

[fezhaez]

If you delete postman how do you browse the internet?

[arsenaghajanyan]

Is there a way to preserve cookies sent from api for the following requests?

[congjuny]

does it do prescript, test, or read variable values from a file etc?

[abhishekbagchi]

Cool video. One Question what if I want to update the token in Environment value from a request

[shomari]

Did you vscode or vs in your coursed please?

[petter.envall]

It is unfortunate that the variables are stored in the vscode settings instead of something like a file in the root of the httpfiles, or project root for that matter

[OlleHellman]

How do you handle secrets and making sure the token is not checked in?

[vibes]

Thanks for the video. Can you also have part 2 of this video where you process the json responses and set new values of environment variables and then send 2nd http request to some another endpoint after that (using json data values from success response data).

[ChrisWard]

So I can do this all in postman. What about populating the variable with a HTTP call? Say I have an API call to get a token and then want to use that token in other API calls? I can do this in Postman, can it be done with this?

[shayvt]

Another good one! :)
Thank you Amichai