Dummy HTTP server for debugging

Posted by Andrea on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Andrea
Published on 2012-08-30T14:37:51Z Indexed on 2012/08/30 15:40 UTC
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This is more or less the inverse of my previous question. I need to debug some HTTP requests that I am making. Since these requests arise from the use of some external libraries, sometimes I am not sure of what is the actual data I am sending.

Is there some dummy server (for Linux) that accepts HTTP requests and just prints them somewhere so that I can inspect them? I would like to be able to see in plain text the full request, like

POST /foo HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
Accept: text/xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 11

Hello world

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