If you’re a tester or developer who needs to work with APIs across different platforms, HTTP Toolkit is a valuable tool to keep by your side. By Anshul Behl. By Dennis Martinez.
When it comes to testing the APIs of our applications, we have lots of tools at our disposal. Most modern browsers have built-in tools for web applications to inspect any network requests made on any given page.
HTTP Toolkit is an open-source application that gives you the ability to handle most of your HTTP traffic inspection, and it’s an ideal way to manage your API requests in a single place. This article will go through the basics of using HTTP Toolkit and explore how it can help you debug and test your APIs. If you have to manage any APIs, mainly through a web application, keep reading.
The article provides more information on these topics:
- What does HTTP Toolkit provide?
- Using HTTP Toolkit to intercept traffic from a web application
- Using HTTP Toolkit to mock HTTP requests and responses
HTTP Toolkit makes this intercepting and mocking easy through the “Mock” section. This section allows you to set any rules for handling different kinds of captured HTTP traffic. You can create a rule by selecting the HTTP method you want to monitor, filter those requests, and choose what you want to do next. In the free version of HTTP Toolkit, you can pause traffic before making a request to an application or service, after receiving a response, or both.
Once you begin inspecting traffic, HTTP Toolkit will collect every single HTTP request and response made from the apps and services you’re tracking with the app. It displays helpful information such as the HTTP method (GET, POST, etc.), the response status codes, the host where the request went to, and the URL path. From there, you can filter the requests or get a detailed view of any specific item and see almost every detail for the request and response. This information is invaluable when debugging apps or services connected to the Internet. Good read!
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