flask-echo-server
A simple echo server built with flask.
Install
↪ python3 setup.py install
Usage
↪ flask-echo -h
Usage: flask-echo [options]
Options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--port=PORT port to run server on - default 5000
--host=HOST host to bind server on - default 127.0.0.1
--auth=AUTH basic authentication credentials, should be passed in like
"username:password"
-v, --verbose increased verbosity - outputs response to console
--debug enable debug mode in flask
Example
↪ flask-echo &
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
↪ http localhost:5000
127.0.0.1 - - [17/Mar/2015 22:11:20] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Length: 529
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:11:20 GMT
Server: Werkzeug/0.10.1 Python/3.4.0
{
"args": {},
"base_url": "http://localhost:5000/",
"cookies": {},
"data": "",
"form": {},
"headers": {
"Accept": "*/*",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, compress",
"Content-Length": "",
"Content-Type": "",
"Host": "localhost:5000",
"User-Agent": "HTTPie/0.8.0"
},
"host": "localhost:5000",
"method": "GET",
"path": "/",
"script_root": "",
"status": 200,
"success": true,
"time": 1426648280.7245362,
"url": "http://localhost:5000/",
"url_root": "http://localhost:5000/"
}
Basic Authentication
You can enable basic auth by passing credentials with the command line argument --auth
↪ flask-echo --auth username:password
Request Arguments
Some additional arguments can be passed to change the response behavior.
status
↪ http 'localhost:5000?status=401'
HTTP/1.0 401 UNAUTHORIZED
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