httpbin(1): HTTP Request & Response Service

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ENDPOINTS

/ This page.
/ip Returns Origin IP.
/user-agent Returns user-agent.
/headers Returns header dict.
/get Returns GET data.
/post Returns POST data.
/patch Returns PATCH data.
/put Returns PUT data.
/delete Returns DELETE data
/encoding/utf8 Returns page containing UTF-8 data.
/gzip Returns gzip-encoded data.
/deflate Returns deflate-encoded data.
/status/:code Returns given HTTP Status code.
/response-headers?key=val Returns given response headers.
/redirect/:n 302 Redirects n times.
/redirect-to?url=foo 302 Redirects to the foo URL.
/redirect-to?url=foo&status_code=307 307 Redirects to the foo URL.
/relative-redirect/:n 302 Relative redirects n times.
/absolute-redirect/:n 302 Absolute redirects n times.
/cookies Returns cookie data.
/cookies/set?name=value Sets one or more simple cookies.
/cookies/delete?name Deletes one or more simple cookies.
/basic-auth/:user/:passwd Challenges HTTPBasic Auth.
/hidden-basic-auth/:user/:passwd 404'd BasicAuth.
/digest-auth/:qop/:user/:passwd/:algorithm Challenges HTTP Digest Auth.
/digest-auth/:qop/:user/:passwd Challenges HTTP Digest Auth.
/stream/:n Streams min(n, 100) lines.
/delay/:n Delays responding for min(n, 10) seconds.
/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.
/range/1024?duration=s&chunk_size=code Streams n bytes, and allows specifying a Range header to select a subset of the data. Accepts a chunk_size and request duration parameter.
/html Renders an HTML Page.
/robots.txt Returns some robots.txt rules.
/deny Denied by robots.txt file.
/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.
/bytes/:n Generates n random bytes of binary data, accepts optional seed integer parameter.
/stream-bytes/:n Streams n random bytes of binary data, accepts optional seed and chunk_size integer parameters.
/links/:n Returns page containing n HTML links.
/image Returns page containing an image based on sent Accept header.
/image/png Returns page containing a PNG image.
/image/jpeg Returns page containing a JPEG image.
/image/webp Returns page containing a WEBP image.
/image/svg Returns page containing a SVG image.
/forms/post HTML form that submits to /post
/xml Returns some XML

DESCRIPTION

Testing an HTTP Library can become difficult sometimes. RequestBin is fantastic for testing POST requests, but doesn't let you control the response. This exists to cover all kinds of HTTP scenarios. Additional endpoints are being considered.

All endpoint responses are JSON-encoded.

EXAMPLES

$ curl http://httpbin.org/ip

{"origin": "24.127.96.129"}

$ curl http://httpbin.org/user-agent

{"user-agent": "curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3"}

$ curl http://httpbin.org/get

{
   "args": {},
   "headers": {
      "Accept": "*/*",
      "Connection": "close",
      "Content-Length": "",
      "Content-Type": "",
      "Host": "httpbin.org",
      "User-Agent": "curl/7.19.7 (universal-apple-darwin10.0) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3"
   },
   "origin": "24.127.96.129",
   "url": "http://httpbin.org/get"
}

$ curl -I http://httpbin.org/status/418

HTTP/1.1 418 I'M A TEAPOT
Server: nginx/0.7.67
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:25:38 GMT
Connection: close
x-more-info: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
Content-Length: 135

$ curl https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1

{
  "headers": {
    "Content-Length": "",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.8",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip,deflate,sdch",
    "X-Forwarded-Port": "443",
    "X-Forwarded-For": "109.60.101.240",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.83 Safari/535.11",
    "X-Request-Start": "1350053933441",
    "Accept-Charset": "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3",
    "Connection": "keep-alive",
    "X-Forwarded-Proto": "https",
    "Cookie": "_gauges_unique_day=1; _gauges_unique_month=1; _gauges_unique_year=1; _gauges_unique=1; _gauges_unique_hour=1",
    "Content-Type": ""
  },
  "args": {
    "show_env": "1"
  },
  "origin": "109.60.101.240",
  "url": "http://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1"
}

Installing and running from PyPI

You can install httpbin as a library from PyPI and run it as a WSGI app. For example, using Gunicorn:

$ pip install httpbin
$ gunicorn httpbin:app

Changelog

0.2.0: Added an XML endpoint. Also fixes several bugs with unicode, CORS headers, digest auth, and more.
0.1.2: Fix a couple Python3 bugs with the random byte endpoints, fix a bug when uploading files without a Content-Type header set.
0.1.1: Added templates as data in setup.py
0.1.0: Added python3 support and (re)publish on PyPI

AUTHOR

A Runscope Community Project.

Originally created by Kenneth Reitz.