SendMeBack - a simple HTTP echo server

SendMeBack acts as a simple HTTP echo server. A client sends a parameterised HTTP request to the server, specifying what it wants to see in the response.

The tool is designed to allow simple testing of intermediate network components such as firewalls and proxies.

Usage

In a browser, or using curl, visit the /sendmeback/ route with an arbitary URL. Sendmeback will respond with an HTTP response with the response code equal to the first number it finds on the URL.

Sendmeback will take all parameters passed to the URL and use them as HTTP headers in the response.

Example:

$ curl -v http://localhost:8080/sendmeback/201/test?Content-Type=text%2fcsv\&Pragma=custom
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
*   Trying ::1...
* connect to ::1 port 8080 failed: Connection refused
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
> GET /sendmeback/201/test?Content-Type=text%2fcsv&Pragma=custom HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.37.1
> Host: localhost:8080
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Content-Type: text/csv; charset=utf-8
< Pragma: custom
< Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 14:04:06 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
201:/sendmeback/201/test?Content-Type=text%2fcsv&Pragma=custom

Installation

Sendmeback requires node.js. Install node, and then install sendmeback:

npm install sendmeback

You can then start sendmeback either with:

node app.js

or

npm start

Homepage

You can find details of sendmeback at the project homepage: https://github.com/hossg/sendmeback