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Help - REST client performance
I have an application that uses the curl command (actually a php module that calls the libcurl library) to retrieve data from a NetSuite RESTlet.
This morning the performance of that application went down hill in a big way.
However, when I use the Postman REST client, I still get good performance. Even on the first call, it returns in 3 seconds or less. Subsequent calls return in less than a second. The same curl command with the same REST URL with the same parameters executed on multiple servers on different networks in different cities all perform the same - 18 to 20 seconds. I've tried Postman on two different systems on different networks and get excellent performance on both. I even tried curl under cygwin on the same Windows box where Postman runs in 3 seconds. I get