Insomnia Missing Environment Variable Resolution Behavior

Insomnia Environment Variable Resolution Change

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Insomnia Environment Variable Resolution

The documented feature allows variable referencing using {{name}} across URLs, headers, and bodies.

A key uncertainty exists regarding the behavior when a referenced environment variable is absent in the selected environment, despite being present in the base environment.

Variable Absence Policy

Does the absent variable resolve to a literal string placeholder?
Does it resolve to an empty string value?
Does the request fail outright due to missing variable resolution?

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