httpbin VS gunicorn

Compare httpbin vs gunicorn and see what are their differences.

httpbin

HTTP Request & Response Service, written in Python + Flask. (by postmanlabs)

gunicorn

gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications. (by benoitc)
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httpbin gunicorn
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12,384 9,504
0.9% -
0.0 8.0
about 1 month ago 1 day ago
Python Python
ISC License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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httpbin

Posts with mentions or reviews of httpbin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-09.
  • Bruno
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2024
  • Hardening Apache APISIX with the OWASP's Coraza and Core Ruleset
    6 projects | dev.to | 8 Feb 2024
    We proceed to define routes to https://httpbin.org/ to test our setup. Let's call the route to /get:
  • looking for resource site for GET-POST practice (html)
    3 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 9 Dec 2023
    https://httpbin.org/ is an excellent tool for learning (and testing) the basics. Take a few minutes to explore the endpoints they provide. You can also use different response codes to test your apps error handling, etc
  • httpbin alternatives - go-httpbin and java-httpbin
    3 projects | 12 Nov 2023
  • Crafting a Language Server in Golang: A VSCode LSP for Lama2
    1 project | dev.to | 7 Nov 2023
    export FABI_PROD="http://httpbin.org/" export FABI_LOCAL="http://0.0.0.0:8000/"
  • Edge IoT with Rust on ESP: HTTP Client
    1 project | dev.to | 6 Oct 2023
    use anyhow; use embedded_svc::http::client::Client; use embedded_svc::wifi::{AuthMethod, ClientConfiguration, Configuration}; use esp_idf_hal::peripherals::Peripherals; use esp_idf_svc::eventloop::EspSystemEventLoop; use esp_idf_svc::http::client::{Configuration as HttpConfig, EspHttpConnection}; use esp_idf_svc::nvs::EspDefaultNvsPartition; use esp_idf_svc::wifi::{BlockingWifi, EspWifi}; fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> { esp_idf_sys::link_patches(); // Configure Wifi let peripherals = Peripherals::take().unwrap(); let sysloop = EspSystemEventLoop::take()?; let nvs = EspDefaultNvsPartition::take()?; let mut wifi = BlockingWifi::wrap( EspWifi::new(peripherals.modem, sysloop.clone(), Some(nvs))?, sysloop, )?; wifi.set_configuration(&Configuration::Client(ClientConfiguration { ssid: "SSID".into(), bssid: None, auth_method: AuthMethod::None, password: "PASSWORD".into(), channel: None, }))?; // Start Wifi wifi.start()?; // Connect Wifi wifi.connect()?; // Wait until the network interface is up wifi.wait_netif_up()?; // Print Out Wifi Connection Configuration while !wifi.is_connected().unwrap() { // Get and print connection configuration let config = wifi.get_configuration().unwrap(); println!("Waiting for station {:?}", config); } println!("Wifi Connected, Intiatlizing HTTP"); // HTTP Configuration // Create HTTPS Connection Handle let httpconnection = EspHttpConnection::new(&HttpConfig { use_global_ca_store: true, crt_bundle_attach: Some(esp_idf_sys::esp_crt_bundle_attach), ..Default::default() })?; // Create HTTPS Client let mut httpclient = Client::wrap(httpconnection); // HTTP Request Submission // Define URL let url = "https://httpbin.org/get"; // Prepare request let request = httpclient.get(url)?; // Log URL and type of request println!("-> GET {}", url); // Submit Request and Store Response let response = request.submit()?; // HTTP Response Processing let status = response.status(); println!("<- {}", status); match response.header("Content-Length") { Some(data) => { println!("Content-Length: {}", data); } None => { println!("No Content-Length Header"); } } match response.header("Date") { Some(data) => { println!("Date: {}", data); } None => { println!("No Date Header"); } } Ok(()) }
  • Down the rabbit hole of an Apache APISIX plugin
    1 project | dev.to | 28 Sep 2023
    has_domain: whether the matched route references an upstream with a domain, e.g., http://httpbin.org, or not, e.g., 192.168.0.1
  • Show HN: HTTP Status Code Generator
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
  • Python Software Foundation forks httpbin
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Aug 2023
  • How to upload files using JavaScript
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Aug 2023
    But where does the data go now? By default, the form data is sent to the URL of the page containing the form — the current page, actually. Generally, all the data should be sent to a server to store and be handled. We can set up a server like Next.js, but it's a big separate topic to discover. You can learn more about it in our tutorial. In this post, I suggest concentrating on uploading staff and using httpbin — a simple OSS HTTP Request & Response Service.

gunicorn

Posts with mentions or reviews of gunicorn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-10.
  • Nginx Unit – Universal web app server
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2023
    I'm hoping so – gunicorn has a long-open pull request that would fix `--reuse-port`, which currently does nothing

    https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2938

  • SynchronousOnlyOperation from celery task using gevent execution pool on django orm
    3 projects | /r/django | 31 May 2023
    4 projects | /r/djangolearning | 31 May 2023
  • Deploying Django when using python-socketio
    1 project | /r/django | 13 May 2023
    However, I'm curious about the best way to deploy, specifically with regard to WSGI. I've tried using the raw eventlet WSGI server (`eventlet.wsgi.server(eventlet.listen(("", 8000)), application)`). I then start it with `python manage.py runserver`. This has worked okay, but I'm unsure about how scalable it is. It seems like the standard stack is Django + Gunicorn + NGINX. Based on `python-socketio` documentation, this should be possible. I tried django + eventlet + gunicorn, but it seems like gunicorn a) [doesn't play nice with eventlet](https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2581) and b) only supports one worker. Gevent + Gunicorn doesn't have this bug, but still only supports one worker. Also, I'm not sure how actively maintained gevent is. So I'm not sure how scalable either Gunicorn + eventlet or Gunicorn + geventlet is as a WSGI server. So I'm not sure if Gunicorn is my best bet, or if it's too limited.
  • The Django ecosystem is not so good
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2023
  • 3 cool project ideas for Python programmers
    3 projects | dev.to | 29 Aug 2022
    For building your API, I recommend using the Flask library. It is very beginner-friendly, and you will be able to build a simple API in a matter of minutes! Keep in mind that, for a more serious project, you should definitely use something like gunicorn to run you API as a production server.
  • Django 4.1 Released
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2022
    Interesting looks like it might actually be a python bug. Somehow just changing from sys.exit(0) -> os._exit(0) apparently fixes it.

    https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2820

  • Serverless Templates for AWS and Python
    9 projects | dev.to | 2 Aug 2022
    The cool thing is that you can easily migrate your WSGI- application such as Flask, Django, or Gunicorn to AWS.
  • Scope of database threads + connections + sessions
    1 project | /r/django | 20 Apr 2022
    Yeah, that's kind of the impression I was getting. I stumbled across a github issue for gunicorn along these lines.
  • Running Django with Gunicorn - Best Practice
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 19 Mar 2022
    Taking a glimpse at gunicorn's code it looks like they pretty much all do the same: 2. seems to be creating a wsgi app using django's internals, and 3. uses 2.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing httpbin and gunicorn you can also consider the following projects:

echo-server - An HTTP and WebSocket "echo" server for testing proxies and HTTP clients.

waitress - Waitress - A WSGI server for Python 3

gabbi - Declarative HTTP Testing for Python and anything else

Werkzeug - The comprehensive WSGI web application library.

novelai-api - Python API for the NovelAI REST API

bjoern - A screamingly fast Python 2/3 WSGI server written in C.

azure-docs - Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure

uwsgi - Official uWSGI docs, examples, tutorials, tips and tricks

echo-server - An HTTP and WebSocket "echo" server for testing proxies and HTTP clients.

meinheld - Meinheld is a high performance asynchronous WSGI Web Server (based on picoev)

cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.

hypercorn - Hypercorn is an ASGI and WSGI Server based on Hyper libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.