I currently have some situations where I just want to have a bit of scripting (variable preparation) in a “request” and not send (or receive) any data. For this, I use a HEAD request to Google, as I didn’t want to assume any other service to be available and I don’t want there to be an ugly timeout by querying an e.g. localhost service that might not be up and running yet.
Is there a better way to do this? I really would like a dedicated NO-OP request that doesn’t even require a URL, as I don’t want to give Google a ping every time I run one if those scripts.
I’ve been following this use case for a while. Every time, I end up thinking that a NoOp request might not be the right solution.
Just for my curiosity - what else do you think will help you do this other than using a no-op request? Say, if you got a script that you could add to collection or folder that is executed before every request like a common pre-request script for all requests and then if you could write conditional logic in that script based on the request name?
Or say a script that runs once before a collection run starts?
Sure, a dedicated script item to add to folders would be perfect. As I don’t really send a request, there’s no need for the other tabs. But there’s IMHO no need to make changes to the way collections are executed in a runner.
Not exactly what I meant, but still useful, especially the Authorization inheritence.
I failed to describe my use case, I have items that “import” different script snippets / libraries by putting them into global variables, then I have a login request with strong cryptography, where I eval each of those “imported” scripts to calculate an HMAC. And I wanted to be able to keep a library of such items to pick and mix what I need with a descriptive item.
There seems to be a problem with the account management, I kept getting logged in with my alt account, despite selecting the main one from the list. Had to clear all the cookies. But the above is me.