Since updating to version 8 of Postman, the app has been virtually unusable.
My company, for reasons I wonāt start ranting about, has a proxy / web gateway called Z-Scaler running which takes great delight in intercepting web traffic and generally breaking the majority of the tools that developers like to use to do their job. Because of this, Postman canāt connect to whatever server it needs to connect to and is constantly telling me Iām offline.
With version 7, this wasnāt an issue as I could still create requests, save them to collections and generally just use it to test local APIs.
With version 8, I canāt do anything, everything I try is met with a message āUnable to load data as youāre offlineā.
Is there a setting somewhere that I can use to switch to an āOffline modeā, or basically say āyeah, I know, deal with itā?
Hello,
I have the exact same issue, just as @roual posted.
It would be nice to post a solution here as this is the landing page from Google search.
I could work offline but how can I get my Workspace content back?
Sorry for the confusion here. Iām referring to a support ticket stating the issue with your app. We are aware of this issue and we are tracking it internally. Once again, so sorry for the hassle.
Yes, in the Web version itās all visible in the Workspace.
I ended up downgrading back to 7.36.1 and, for the moment, Iām back to work.
Iāll try again next week and see if the Scratch pad mode works for me.
Seeing the same issue here. The web client works (thankfully) and the local client works in āScratch padā mode, but version 8+ seems to have issues with zscaler.
Does version 7.1.1 have this issue of not being able to work offile? I am trying to work in our intranet site, simple calls to our phone book appplication, but to no avail. I get errors all the timeā¦
The Postman app and site are both unusable for me, even after my IT dept provided me with a proxy. In the past I was able to use Postman in offline mode and sync my workspaces off corporate VPN, but Postman 8 is now unusable and I have to go back to latest release of Postman 7. Scratch Pad seems too limiting to be of any real use. I understand the thought that an API testing app should always be online, but there are scenarios where it makes sense (localhost testing).
Could you elaborate on the parts you feel are unstable - This will provide insights into what could be improved. Any reproducible examples would help here too.
Could you expand on what areas of the Scratch pad that you feel are limiting you from achieving your current workflow?
Not unstableā¦ unusable. We are getting a screen that says it cannot load data while offline. In Postman 7.x, it would at least load the locally cached data. My current workaround has been to downgrade to Postman 7.
Scratch Pad is too limiting in that Iāve built up many workspaces that Iād like to keep using and Iām not going to re-build those. I could be wrong, but I also take it that I wouldnāt be able to save any āScratch Padā workspaces. So itās fine for one-off requests, but not when I need to have lots of variables, scripts, etc. that I need to be persisted for the next time I use the application.
Same problem here. Totally unusable v 8.5! Is there a way to revert the upgrade to v 7?
If not than I have to quit using Postman. Fortunately I was the first in my company who faced this problem and told my colleagues not to upgrade.
Time to start looking for a replacementā¦