Since updating to version 8 of Postman, the app has been virtually unusable.
My company, for reasons I won’t 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 can’t connect to whatever server it needs to connect to and is constantly telling me I’m offline.
With version 7, this wasn’t 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 can’t do anything, everything I try is met with a message “Unable to load data as you’re offline”.
Is there a setting somewhere that I can use to switch to an “Offline mode”, or basically say “yeah, I know, deal with it”?
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. I’m 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 it’s all visible in the Workspace.
I ended up downgrading back to 7.36.1 and, for the moment, I’m back to work.
I’ll 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 ‘Scratch pad’ 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 time…
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 unstable… 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 I’ve built up many workspaces that I’d like to keep using and I’m not going to re-build those. I could be wrong, but I also take it that I wouldn’t be able to save any “Scratch Pad” workspaces. So it’s 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 replacement…
