Insomnia REST Tool


I was having problems figuring out why authentication is not working for a REST Endpoint that I have exposing using Oracle ORDS. I was doing my testing using curl which is not very helpful and then I discovered Insomnia REST. It is a Windows and Linux based tool that quickly lets you try out your REST API calls.




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