insomnia: Insomnia Can't Run without Public Internet Connection
Expected Behavior
Insomnia API tool should be able to run locally without a connection to the public internet.
Actual Behavior
I lost connection due to unstable wifi and was met with a pop-up window displaying the following:
Application Error
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Network connectivity issue: Failed to load Organizations. Error invoking remote method 'insomniafetch': Error: net: :ERR_CONNECTION_RESET
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Error: Network connectivity issue: Failed to load Organizations. Error invoking remote method 'insomniaFetch': Error: net :ERR_ CONNECTION_ RESET at Module.t81 [as indexLoader] (file: ///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/index-553746a2.js:1255:3095) at async m8 (fil e:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/index-553746a2.js:31:3691) at async Promise.all (index 2) at async ce (file: ///Appli cations/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/index-553746a2.js:30:21935) at async qe (file:///Applications/Insomnia. app/Contents/Resources / app.asar/index-553746a2.js:30:16866) at async we (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/index-553746a2.js: 30:15042) at async Object.ie [as navigate] (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/index-553746a2.js:30:13764)
Reproduction Steps
Revised:
- Be connected to the internet
- Open Insomnia
- Close Insomnia
- Disconnect from internet
- Open Insomnia
- See error that blocks usage
Is there an existing issue for this?
- I have searched the issue tracker for this problem.
Additional Information
No response
Insomnia Version
8.1.0
What operating system are you using?
macOS
Operating System Version
13.6 (22G120)
Installation method
download from insomnia.rest
Last Known Working Insomnia version
No response
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 9 months ago
- Reactions: 11
- Comments: 19 (11 by maintainers)
The first time you open the app we need to fetch your organizations.
After that it’s cached and it can be used without a connection.
This is how Linear, Notion and other apps work too.
@suchislife801 please never do that again. Use normal text size like a decent human being.
@subnetmarco one question though: did anyone ever ask for this?
Yeah, OR…
Last Working Version! Sort Order Fix!
Also, everything that used to work, works on this version.
2023.4.0
ANY version ABOVE 2023.4.0 will absolutely WRECK your sort orders.
That feels like an odd choice. For e.g., the power in my block went out for a couple of seconds, while I was in the middle of developing and testing a feature. PC rebooted in less than a minute, but the modem itself bugs out and for some reason takes 20 mins to get back online. Meanwhile I can spin up my IDE and keep doing work locally, no problem. Except now Insomnia is unusable until my internet link restablishes, so I gotta either wait until it comes back on, or go to cUrl or switch to Postman;
I’m guessing this also means if I ever go to granny’s ‘country’ house and turn on my laptop there (not internet at all available) then I just need to start creating my requests from scratch…?
Idk if I’m missing something, but feels like a weird “feature”. 😅
@viniciusribeiro-hotmart So, this is the current situation (Insomnia v8.3):
So as long as the application is not being closed, then Insomnia is usable in an offline state.
It seems that Insomnia could remember the previous session, and when present and not timed out, could re-open the application without asking for login again. We would need to investigate if there is a secure way to do this, without compromising the user’s security, I would assume so since it sounds a lot similar to what a browser does when the user checkboxes the “keep me logged in” button.
Most likely we would introduce such a checkbox in Insomnia too.
The parent issue has been fixed in the new 9.0 GA release available today.
@gatzjames thanks for the response! I’m not sure what more to add really except maybe my perspective on this functionality:
I understand the desire/want to verify a session before starting. However, if it continues working when the internet connection drops, it isn’t really any more secure than allowing someone to start a session with no internet connection, is it?
For example, if the goal is to prevent a former employee from gaining access to a workspace offline, this works in the sense that they won’t be able to use the app. However, they can still hop on over to (on macos)
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Insomniaand scan through all the data in plain text there.So I guess my question is, what is it is that you’re trying to accomplish with this behavior?
My use case specifically:
localhost.