A few months ago I was looking for a new HTTP client to use within my applications. I first checked on awesome dotnet under the HTTP section to see what projects the .NET community is using instead of the default HTTP client. One that immediately stands out is RestSharp, this project has been around for a while and is overall a good choice, but I was looking for something new and fresh, that is when I came across Flurl....

Problem You have installed WSL successfully on your machine only to find out that you cannot connect to the internet. I have encountered this problem before sometimes it can be fixed externally, but from my experience, no matter what you do, you will end up having to mock around with the resolv.conf file within WSL, more on that later. You may encounter an internet issue in WSL when the network administrator had configured Windows Defender to not allow local fire rules to be merged with rules applied at the enterprise level....

The Postman app is an excellent tool for building and testing Web APIs. It gets even better when you combine it with Newman, which allows you to execute your Postman scripts on a continuous integration system like Bitbucket Pipelines. While both Postman and Newman are awesome, you may encounter issues while working with both apps. if(pm.request.body.isEmpty){ // Code Omitted For Brevity } One issue you may encounter is having a script that was written in Postman, successfully tested using Postman, fail when executed using Newman....

I was recently presented with a unique challenge at work. I needed to create a script that clones repositories from Bitbucket. The problem is that as of June 2022, Bitbucket only supports managing repositories using OAuth via two grant types, the authorization code grant & the implicit grant. I won’t get into the details here but the implicit grant is no longer recommended and is in fact discouraged from ever being used....

I was recently talking to another developer about the importance of never exposing internal identifiers to the outside world. A well-known example of this is using an auto-incrementing identity field in SQL and exposing that field through an API. A client can look at the highest number to tell how many records exist, in an ordering system this is far from ideal. Now everyone will know how many orders you have created....