go-httpbin

A reasonably complete and well-tested golang port of Kenneth Reitz's httpbin service, with zero dependencies outside the go stdlib.

Usage

Run as a standalone binary, configured by command line flags or environment variables:

$ go-httpbin --help
Usage of go-httpbin:
  -host string
      Host to listen on (default "0.0.0.0")
  -https bool
      Start by HTTPS Server model (default false)
  -max-body-size int
      Maximum size of request or response, in bytes (default 1048576)
  -max-duration duration
      Maximum duration a response may take (default 10s)
  -port int
      Port to listen on (default 8080)

Examples:

# Run http server
$ go-httpbin -host 127.0.0.1 -port 8081

# Run https server
$ openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048
$ openssl ecparam -genkey -name secp384r1 -out server.key
$ openssl req -new -x509 -sha256 -key server.key -out server.crt -days 3650
$ go-httpbin -host 127.0.0.1 -port 8081 -https-cert-file ./server.crt -https-key-file ./server.key

Run https server

the direct of cert has include ca.key & ca.pem. if you start by -https=true,then go-httpbin will automatically generate the server certificate and load it. Relying on this feature we can deploy many https servers in k8s. you can used this ca certificate generate the client certificate.

Docker images are published to Docker Hub:

# Run http server
$ docker run -P mccutchen/go-httpbin

# Run https server
$ docker run -e HTTPS_CERT_FILE='/tmp/server.crt' -e HTTPS_KEY_FILE='/tmp/server.key' -p 8080:8080 -v /tmp:/tmp mccutchen/go-httpbin

The github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin/httpbin/v2 package can also be used as a library for testing an applications interactions with an upstream HTTP service, like so:

package httpbin_test

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

	"github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin/v2/httpbin"
)

func TestSlowResponse(t *testing.T) {
	app := httpbin.New()
	testServer := httptest.NewServer(app.Handler())
	defer testServer.Close()

	client := http.Client{
		Timeout: time.Duration(1 * time.Second),
	}

	_, err := client.Get(testServer.URL + "/delay/10")
	if !os.IsTimeout(err) {
		t.Fatalf("expected timeout error, got %s", err)
	}
}

Installation

To add go-httpbin to an existing golang project:

go get -u github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin/v2

To install the go-httpbin binary:

go install github.com/mccutchen/go-httpbin/v2/cmd/go-httpbin

Motivation & prior art

I've been a longtime user of Kenneith Reitz's original httpbin.org, and wanted to write a golang port for fun and to see how far I could get using only the stdlib.

When I started this project, there were a handful of existing and incomplete golang ports, with the most promising being ahmetb/go-httpbin. This project showed me how useful it might be to have an httpbin library available for testing golang applications.

Known differences from other httpbin versions

Compared to the original:

• No /brotli endpoint (due to lack of support in Go's stdlib)
• The ?show_env=1 query param is ignored (i.e. no special handling of runtime environment headers)
• Response values which may be encoded as either a string or a list of strings will always be encoded as a list of strings (e.g. request headers, query params, form values)

Compared to ahmetb/go-httpbin:

• No dependencies on 3rd party packages
• More complete implementation of endpoints

Development

# local development
make
make test
make testcover
make run

# building & pushing docker images
make image
make imagepush