Quick one today, but one that stole more time then it should have away from todays project.

In Postman if you are working locally on something like a REST API without a valid SSL certification setup Postman will fail to perform requests often failing with one of the following messages:

• Error: unable to verify the first certificate
• Error: socket hang up

The workaround to this is to disable SSL Verification (File->Settings->General->SSL Verification).

Disabling SSL Verification