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Pororoca: HTTP and API Testing Tool

Hazem Abbas

18 Nov 2022 — 1 min read

Pororoca is a free open-source HTTP testing tool that works for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. It is compatible with Postman and can be an alternative for it.

Pororoca is ready to install for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Features

Support for HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
Collection-scoped environments.
Easy variable management.
Secret variables.
Collections and environments can be exported together in a single file.
Full export and import compatibility with Postman.
Much lower memory usage - around six times less than Postman.
Automated testing.
Fast startup time.
Free and open-source.

HTTP/3 and privacy

HTTP/3 uses the QUIC transport protocol and there are some privacy concerns about it. It might not be a problem on internal network communications and for most business applications, though.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see here.

Resources

Source code

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