httpbin VS echo-server

Compare httpbin vs echo-server and see what are their differences.

httpbin

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

echo-server

An HTTP and WebSocket "echo" server for testing proxies and HTTP clients. (by lob)
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httpbin echo-server
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0.0 0.0
about 1 month ago about 1 year ago
Python Go
ISC License MIT License
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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.

echo-server

Posts with mentions or reviews of echo-server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-03.
  • websocket.org is down, here is an alternative
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 Dec 2021
    You may want to deploy the echo-server project to Heroku but find that it requires go version 1.17.  We’ve forked the echo-server project and updated it to version 1.17 and included metadata for Heroku deployment.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing httpbin and echo-server you can also consider the following projects:

gabbi - Declarative HTTP Testing for Python and anything else

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

novelai-api - Python API for the NovelAI REST API

azure-docs - Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure

gunicorn - gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.

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

badssl.com - :lock: Memorable site for testing clients against bad SSL configs.

easyhttp - 👩‍💻 Simple Python HTTP server

hug - Embrace the APIs of the future. Hug aims to make developing APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler.

httpstatuses - A directory of HTTP Status Codes and code references

bruno - Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing Api's (lightweight alternative to postman/insomnia)