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halpert on Feb 2, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Postman Now Supports gRPC

You can have curl read the request body from a file using --data @filename.txt.

piaste on Feb 2, 2022 [–]

Which means you've opened an editor already to edit the request. Might as well send the request right there via an editor command/plugin.

halpert on Feb 2, 2022 | [–]

Or you saved the response from a different curl request, or it’s checked into git, or a million different reasons.

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