go-httpbin

A Go handler that lets you test your HTTP client, retry logic, streaming behavior, timeouts etc. with the endpoints of httpbin.org locally in a net/http/httptest.Server.

This way, you can write tests without relying on an external dependency like httpbin.org.

Endpoints

• /ip Returns Origin IP.
• /user-agent Returns user-agent.
• /headers Returns headers.
• /get Returns GET data.
• /status/:code Returns given HTTP Status code.
• /redirect/:n 302 Redirects n times.
• /absolute-redirect/:n 302 Absolute redirects n times.
• /redirect-to?url=foo 302 Redirects to the foo URL.
• /stream/:n Streams n lines of JSON objects.
• /delay/:n Delays responding for min(n, 10) seconds.
• /bytes/:n Generates n random bytes of binary data, accepts optional seed integer parameter.
• /cookies Returns the cookies.
• /cookies/set?name=value Sets one or more simple cookies.
• /cookies/delete?name Deletes one or more simple cookies.
• /drip?numbytes=n&duration=s&delay=s&code=code Drips data over a duration after an optional initial delay, then optionally returns with the given status code.
• /cache Returns 200 unless an If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match header is provided, when it returns a 304.
• /cache/:n Sets a Cache-Control header for n seconds.
• /gzip Returns gzip-encoded data.
• /deflate Returns deflate-encoded data.
• /brotli Returns brotli-encoded data.
• /robots.txt Returns some robots.txt rules.
• /deny Denied by robots.txt file.
• /basic-auth/:user/:passwd Challenges HTTP Basic Auth.
• /hidden-basic-auth/:user/:passwd Challenges HTTP Basic Auth and returns 404 on failure.
• /html Returns some HTML.
• /xml Returns some XML.
• /image/gif Returns page containing an animated GIF image.
• /image/png Returns page containing a PNG image.
• /image/jpeg Returns page containing a JPEG image.

How to use

Standing up a Go server running httpbin endpoints is just 1 line:

package main

import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "github.com/ahmetb/go-httpbin"
)

func main() {
	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", httpbin.GetMux()))
}

Let's say you do not want a server running all the time because you just want to test your HTTP logic after all. Integrating httpbin to your tests is very simple:

package test

import (
    "testing"
    "net/http"
    "net/http/httptest"

    "github.com/ahmetb/go-httpbin"
)

func TestDownload(t *testing.T) {
    srv := httptest.NewServer(httpbin.GetMux())
    defer srv.Close()

    resp, err := http.Get(srv.URL + "/bytes/65536")
    if err != nil {
        t.Fatal(err)
    }
    // read from an actual HTTP server hosted locally
    // test whatever you are going to test...
}

go-httpbin works from the command line as well:

$ go get github.com/ahmetb/go-httpbin/cmd/httpbin
$ $GOPATH/bin/httpbin -host :8080

Development

You must have the following tools installed on your system:

• Glide 0.12.0 or above
• Go 1.7 or above

To get started, simply run glide install to install all the dependencies of this package. Then, run go test $(glide nv) to test it.

License

Copyright 2016 Ahmet Alp Balkan

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Authors

• Ahmet Alp Balkan (@ahmetb)