[Question] Websocket Support?

Lizhooh commented 6 years ago

Is insomnia likely to support websocket?

elliottross23 commented 3 years ago

Socket Wrench has been helpful for me when testing websockets

johnnyoshika commented 3 years ago

GraphQL subscription support in Insomnia would be great. So far the best tool I've found for testing GraphQL subscriptions is GraphQL Playground. It's pretty easy to enable inside of a node application using Apollo Server.

7Mica commented 3 years ago

GraphQL subscription support in Insomnia would be great. So far the best tool I've found for testing GraphQL subscriptions is GraphQL Playground. It's pretty easy to enable inside of a node application using Apollo Server.

Yeah but it is pretty messy if you are testing stuff in a lot of tabs

johnnyoshika commented 3 years ago

Yeah but it is pretty messy if you are testing stuff in a lot of tabs

True, I would much rather have subscription support in Insomnia. But Playground is the best I've found so far.

CLTanuki commented 3 years ago

Yeah but it is pretty messy if you are testing stuff in a lot of tabs

True, I would much rather have subscription support in Insomnia. But Playground is the best I've found so far.

I have Insomnia subscription from the begining of a project and I vote for websocket support, because we are using them a lot in our work. Their support is native for nodejs - https://github.com/websockets/ws. Since Insomnia is written with nodejs it could be helpfull. Typical feature list:

Current session message list
Message preset (JSON, raw text or binary payload)
Headers support (websockets are built on top of HTTP)

t00 commented 3 years ago

Websocket support is a killer feature, even in most basic form it would be a life saver.

toughengineer commented 3 years ago

i mean... it's not like the most requested feature or something...

dimitropoulos commented 3 years ago

so I'm a developer on the insomnia team and I, too, would love this. While I haven't read every single sentence in the messages above, what I have read confirms a few things:

others agree with me that this would be super cool and super useful (yay! always happy for that to happen)
from a product perspective it's a significant amount of work. we would definitely want to make sure that we are covering the main use-cases for this. I personally have used the chromedevtools for websockets debugging a lot in the past and can say for sure that it's not a trivial product feature to develop.
from a technical perspective it's a significant amount of work. the libcurl limitations are because it would essentially need to be abstracted - which is a fairly big bit of work to do correctly. definitely possible, but would take a good understanding of the interconnections deep within the codebase.
from a design perspective (mostly UX) it's a significant amount of work. we'll need to make sure our designer is up to speed on all-things-websockets and that we come up with a design that will work well for use-cases where dozens of messages, perse, are coming in per second.
there are people here (e.g. https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/528#issuecomment-354919969) that are willing to help. that's great! on of my favorite parts about being on this team. community support for this one will definitely be important.

If nothing else, I'm gonna keep this in mind and see if I see a window to make some of the above challenges easier to tackle.

Needless to say, this is on my radar - however I do not set product priorities.

davix commented 3 years ago

FYI, postman has supported it: https://blog.postman.com/postman-supports-websocket-apis/

freemstr commented 2 years ago

@davix postman still does not allow saving websocket calls but Firecamp does https://github.com/firecamp-io/firecamp

JCMais commented 2 years ago

Recent post from libcurl's author related to WebSockets support https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/16/you-wanted-websockets/

SimonVillage commented 2 years ago

This is the most upliked issue here (you can sort by Thumbs Up in the issue list). It's also the only reason which keeps me away from using Insomnia as our team API client.

Would love to see this feature.

Lizhooh commented 2 years ago

Has there been any progress from 2017 to now?

I saw that postman has already implemented support for websocket.

ooliver1 commented 2 years ago

anti stale bot bump

josecsotomorales commented 2 years ago

Is this a feature that is coming to Insomnia any time soon?

hunterhug commented 2 years ago

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/16/you-wanted-websockets/

GraphQL Subscription....

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[Question] Websocket Support? #528