Insomnia: Large Files Crash Application

[mlh758]

• Insomnia Version: Version 6.5.3 (6.5.3.2835)
• Operating System: MacOS Mojave

Details

This seems related to #282 and #608 but those are both closed and I'm definitely experiencing the problem.

I requested a 2.5MB Excel file through Insomnia and it became unresponsive. This used to work so I think this was broken in a recent update. Also, if I reopen the application after I'm prompted to the application just crashes outright. I had to delete the response database to open Insomnia again.

Edit: It looks like this might be specific to an xml response. I'm getting:

<ns:binary xmlns:ns="http://ws.apache.org/commons/ns/payload">
base64encodedbytes... lots of them...
</ns:binary>

from the application I was calling now and I think Insomnia might be getting stuck trying to format the xml in the preview.

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[gschier]

Hi @mlh758,

Are you able to post an example XML file for me to test with?

[mlh758]

data.xml.zip

I zipped the response body up and attached it to this comment.

[madetara]

Hi. Same issue here. Insomnia becomes unresponsive whent trying to load heavy response (about 1mb text), which leads to it failing to start

[madetara]

OS: Windows 10

[doneill]

I am seeing an issue with responses from json, workaround proposed in #282 works but not optimal. The json responses from the requests were working before so maybe recent introduction as mentioned in the issue description

[skyhirider]

I am experiencing Insomnia getting stuck when I get a larger json response back.

I click into the body response window, do Ctrl+A and Insomnia gets stuck. Unsure if I should open a separate issue, but this happened repeatedly. Exporting raw body works.

Wish there was a copy body button that would prevent this issue.

[kiwiant]

Same issue on Windows 10 with version 6.5.4 (Shell 3.0.4, Node 10.2.0, V8 6.6.346.32, x64). Exactly the same symptom for me where I try to select the response (530KB) using Ctrl+A or Shift+Ctrl+End the app hangs/becomes unresponsive. Eventually the unresponsive message pops up with the option to "Reload".

I suspect issues 1546 and 1545 are related.

@Skyhirider - copy button ++

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[JacobSiegle]

Testing code which zips 3 photos and downloads them - Same issue where the large payload size causes insomnia to go into a loop of death until you clear data manually. Commented to prevent stale bot.

[kiwiant]

Retested with Insomnia 6.6.2 and the app no longer hangs/becomes unresponsive. How about you @skyhirider?

[JacobSiegle]

I'm not sure why but running the exact same code again with the exact same files being turned into a zip is not causing the crash bootloop anymore. I would assume clearing whatever insomnia had cached in appdata on windows fixed the issue. Unfortunately I already cleared out my trash so I cannot pull back whatever was in appdata to try to replicate the issue.

[JarekDerp]

I think have the same problem?
I wrote a Get API to download a 3.6 MB zip file. I accidentally tried to preview the file as "Raw" and it froze the app. When I restart it, it again try to open the zip file in "Raw"...

Edit: I let it run for 24 minutes (when I was writing my initial comment) and it finally managed to open it. I believe you should implement that if the app crashed, next time you start it should change the preview type to Visual Preview, or no preview at all.

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[mlh758]

Forgot this was still open. This has been fixed for me in recent versions. I see a message that preview is disabled for large files.

[diego-lipinski-de-castro]

I tried to show one 3.3mb pdf and now my app is frozen, I can close and open and it remains frozen, Im on Macos 10.15, what Im supposed to do? I really dont want to clear app data and lose everything saved there.

Edit: I went to /users/{username}/app support/insominia/responses and deleted everything in this folder, so the response just fails to load and the app run again as normal