httpbin(1): HTTP Request & Response Service

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ENDPOINTS

Endpoint	Description
/	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
/gzip	Returns gzip-encoded data.
/deflate	Returns deflate-encoded data.
/status/:code	Returns given HTTP Status code.
/response-headers	Returns given response headers.
/redirect/:n	302 Redirects n times.
/redirect-to?url=foo	302 Redirects to the foo URL.
/relative-redirect/:n	302 Relative 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	Challenges HTTP Digest Auth.
/stream/:n	Streams n – 100 lines.
/delay/:n	Delays responding for n – 10 seconds.
/drip	Drips data over a duration after an optional initial delay, then (optionally) returns with the given status code.
/range/:n	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.
/forms/post	HTML form that submits to /post
/xml	Returns some XML
/encoding/utf8	Returns page containing UTF-8 data.

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

Or run it directly:

$ python -m httpbin.core

Changelog

• 0.4.0: New /image/svg endpoint, add deploy to heroku button, add 406 response to /image, and don't always emit the transfer-encoding header for stream endpoint.
• 0.3.0: A number of new features, including a /range endpoint, lots of bugfixes, and a /encoding/utf8 endpoint
• 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.

SEE ALSO

• https://www.hurl.it
• http://requestb.in
• http://python-requests.org