httpbin VS prestige

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.

Next, we configure our backend service. For demo purposes, it can be any API service that serves our backend logic. You can replace it with your service too. I use a mock public server http://httpbin.org/ that randomly generates responses. For simplicity, we will have a single endpoint that returns the public IP address of our machine in this endpoint http://httpbin.org/ip.

So something like https://httpbin.org (which BTW recently has some capacity issues)

I've used https://httpbin.org for such a purpose.

What bothers me about Postman is how they took ownership of the popular httpbin project 5 years ago and left it to bitrot. They haven't made a single commit since then, not even dependency upgrades. Now it has acquired 5 years' worth of CVEs in its dependency chain. They receive PRs to fix those issues, but all PRs and issues are ignored.

Why take ownership of the project if when there's no intention of maintaining it from the very beginning? It's almost as if projects like httpbin are detrimental to their business.

https://github.com/postmanlabs/httpbin

use GuzzleHttp\Client as HttpClient; Route::any('/proxy/{path}', function(Request $req, $path) { $client = new HttpClient([ 'base_uri' => 'https://httpbin.org' ]); return $client->request($req->method(), $path); });

let response = try Web.Contents( "https://httpbin.org", [ RelativePath = "/status/codes/418", ManualStatusHandling = {401, 402, 404} & {405..500} ] ) catch (e) => "Error, but we caught it" meta e in response

I've not used it, but have heard of Prestige (https://github.com/sharat87/prestige). It bills itself as "A text-based HTTP client in the browser. An interface-less Postman." I hope that helps!

9. prestige

Shameless plug: There's also Prestige at https://prestigemad.com, which is very similar but works right in the browser. You can save your files as Gists as well. Templating with variables is also supported with `${}` syntax, like Javascript's template strings.

But gRPC support is not built yet. It's on the roadmap.

There's also https://prestigemad.com, a text based API testing tool, like Postman. I'm the developer behind it and is open source at https://github.com/sharat87/prestige.

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Hey! I did the same thing, rewrite httpbin in Go, and put it up on https://httpbun.com. I did it because I needed a fast endpoint like httpbin, with a few extras, and with working redirect endpoints. I needed this for testing Prestige. (Sorry for inserting a shameless plug in here, but httpbun and httphub are just so close to each other I couldn't shut up 🙈).

Still early days at https://prestigemad.com (recently discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27412445)

- Backend is a Django project, database is PostgreSQL.

- Frontend powered by Mithril.js and the editor by CodeMirror.

- Hosted on a $5 box on EC2.

- GoatCounter for analytics.

- CloudFlare for DNS, NameCheap for domain.

Also https://httpbun.com

- Backend is a vanilla Go project.

- Frontend is plain HTML and CSS, I don't recall it having any JS at all.

- Hosted on the same $5 box on EC2.

- No analytics (yet).

- CloudFlare for DNS, NameCheap for domain.

It is refreshing to see how much I can squeeze out of a $5 box. I don't intend to stay with EC2 for long, but when its cheap, I'd rather spend my time improving Prestige.

Hey! Thank you very much. Prestige is open source as well. You can checkout the code at https://github.com/sharat87/prestige. :)