Bearer Token wizard would save a lot of time, complexity & bad practice

[billhannah]

At the company I work for, most of my co-workers use Postman. Personally, I refused for a long time.

I had been using Insomnia for a while, and I found it much easier to use. But with their most recent release they lost my trust, and I will no longer be using their product. So, I'm looking for a replacemet.

One thing I really loved about Insomnia was how easy it was to get a bearer token. I would set up a Form Post request to the token server that had the form fields & authoriziation header. Then on the query, there was a tab for Auth Type, and Bearer is an option. If i chose that, there was a field for Token. This could be set as the response from one of my form post requests & I could put an XPath value for the path to the token value. Made setting up new queries so much easier.

But you seem to be doing the "Postman" way - needing to write the same javascript over and over again to get the token, set it as an environment variable, then manually set a header to pull the token out of the environment variable.

Authorization methods are standardized - this work could and should be automated so we don't need to keep copy/pasting JS code to perform a standard workflow.

[imolorhe]

Sounds reasonable to have common auth methods in the header section

[imolorhe]

Just calling out that this was added a while back.