A Quick and Clean Way to Test Your HTTP GET and POST request

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Well, this post is simple, HTTP POST is relatively complex than HTTP GET, some times you want to do a quick test with your post data.

Here are the solutions I know. If you have any other solutions, let me know.

A Free POST Only Test Sever

Access: http://www.posttestserver.com/post.php. This will dump all the http data for you. A good/bad approach of this site I like is that this site will record your request and you can review your request later. But we are not always just want to view the data in web page, sometimes, we also want to use it in unit test.

For example I had posted a request and your can see it here: http://www.posttestserver.com/data/2012/05/11/00.24.01738126829

It’s a test from an iOS App I recently work on.

The Ultimate Solution for Testing HTTP Request

http://httpbin.org/

This is the BEST site I know for test HTTP request. As it listed on the home page, there many test endpoint:

ENDPOINTS

/ This page.
/ip Returns Origin IP.
/user-agent Returns user-agent.
/headers Returns header dict.
/get Returns GET data.
/post Returns POST data.
/put Returns PUT data.
/delete Returns DELETE data.
/gzip Returns gzip-encoded data.
/status/:code Returns given HTTP Status code.
/response-headers?key=val Returns given response headers.
/redirect/:n 302 Redirects n times.
/relative-redirect/:n 302 Relative redirects n times.
/cookies Returns cookie data.
/cookies/set/:name/:value Sets a simple cookie.
/basic-auth/:user/:passwd Challenges HTTPBasic Auth.
/hidden-basic-auth/:user/:passwd 404′d BasicAuth.
/digest-auth/:qop/:user/:passwd Challenges HTTP Digest Auth.
/stream/:n Streams n–100 lines.
/delay/:n Delays responding for n–10 seconds.

This site is really awesome! Just try it!

Any suggestion?

If you have any suggestion or better solutions, please leave a comment.

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