Dojo day 1 - Postman alternative

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When running the Dojo 2022-01-17 it was observed that the Postman license may not be appropriate for some organizations.

Currently the dojo content focusses heavily on use of postman to drive the REST API - partly supported by it's use of collections and environments.

I propose we should have an alternative to postman - this might include

• curl - just using the command line exclusively, though this may need to be supported by formatting tools such as jsonpp, and can be cumbersome with large request bodies. curl itself is very commonly already installed
• httpie - similar to above, but prettier. The downside is needs installing.
• soapui - postman alternative, but less usable, and still may have licensing constraints

need to look into this further