jhunt / httpsink

A black hole for HTTP traffic.

httpsink

A black hole for HTTP traffic. Ever wanted an endpoint you could point something (like an embedded error handling library) at, to just gather up as much as you can? That's what httpsink does.

To run it:

$ docker run -d --restart always \
             --name httpsink \
             -p 4500:4500 \
             filefrog/httpsink

Then, whatever you send (or proxy!) to TCP/4500 gets printed to the container's stdout log stream. This provides some buffering, but does not overly tax longterm storage.

Here's an example:

$ curl -s http://127.0.0.1:4500/baz?quux \
       -u foo:bar -H 'X-Foo: Bar'

$ docker logs httpsink

Which shows up in the container log output as:

httpsink/1.0 listening on port 4500
{
  auth: 'foo:bar',
  method: 'GET',
  path: '/baz',
  headers: {
    host: '127.0.0.1:4500',
    authorization: 'Basic Zm9vOmJhcg==',
    'user-agent': 'curl/7.68.0',
    accept: '*/*',
    'x-foo': 'Bar'
  },
  body: ''
}

Happy Hacking!