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Show HN: Statuscoder, easily get any HTTP status code for testing

54 points by ajack 14y ago

I recently wanted to test how a part of a web app responded to a 502 HTTP status code from a remote site from which it was pulling data. When I came to test it, the remote site was working fine, but I still wanted the 502. So I created statuscoder, just append your desired status code to the URL and it'll respond with that code. http://statuscoder.com It's my first single-use project and I like its simplicity - it does one job and (hopefully) does it well. Is there anything else that you'd want to see it do?

Herald_MJ 14y ago
http://httpstat.us http://httpstat.us does this too.
mcpherrinm 14y ago
Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate. Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.html http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm... I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.
- spicyj 14y ago
  Works fine in Chrome on my Mac.
- ElliotMingee 14y ago
  Works fine on Chrome 19 with Windows 7
- ajack 14y ago
  Oops, didn't pick up on this - it works fine on my machine (without adding exception). I've removed the non-ssl redirect while I get it sorted. Thanks for the heads up :)
  - mcpherrinm 14y ago
    Intermediate certificates are easy to mess up, and they don't always show up for everyone as a problem. Just thought I'd help out! Test with `curl' is where I noticed it broken -- seems to work in Chrome, possibly because they cache intermediate certificates or something? ~% curl 'https://statuscoder.com/ https://statuscoder.com/ curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
- ajack 14y ago
  SSL fixed now, thanks :D
Alan01252 14y ago
https://statuscoder.com/418 https://statuscoder.com/418 Thanks you made me smile. :) Can I ask you what your motivation for this project is?
- ajack 14y ago
  A part of our core app at work pulls in data from a remote source and the other day the remote server was giving a 502. When I came to test it, everything was fine again but I fixed the problem and wanted to see how it reacted again to a 502. I thought it'd be nice to have something where I could specify a status code and get that code back.
  - smoyer 14y ago
    This is a great idea ... Thanks for sharing your test rig. Obviously this can't really be ad supported so maybe a network of us could donate bandwidth if it becomes an issue.
nigma 14y ago
Also http://httpbin.org/ http://httpbin.org/. It can handle more test cases and the source code is on github.
prodigal_erik 14y ago
I'm not very familiar with X-Frame-Options and X-XSS-Protection headers. Do they actually do anything for errors or empty responses, or does this stack just add them by default?
nja 14y ago
This is pretty cool! I'm just disappointed that 420 doesn't say Enhance Your Calm, but then again, you're not Twitter https://dev.twitter.com/docs/error-codes-responses https://dev.twitter.com/docs/error-codes-responses

54 points by ajack 14y ago

Herald_MJ 14y ago

http://httpstat.us http://httpstat.us does this too.

mcpherrinm 14y ago

Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate. Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.html http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm... I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.

spicyj 14y ago
Works fine in Chrome on my Mac.
ElliotMingee 14y ago
Works fine on Chrome 19 with Windows 7
ajack 14y ago
Oops, didn't pick up on this - it works fine on my machine (without adding exception). I've removed the non-ssl redirect while I get it sorted. Thanks for the heads up :)
- mcpherrinm 14y ago
  Intermediate certificates are easy to mess up, and they don't always show up for everyone as a problem. Just thought I'd help out! Test with `curl' is where I noticed it broken -- seems to work in Chrome, possibly because they cache intermediate certificates or something? ~% curl 'https://statuscoder.com/ https://statuscoder.com/ curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
ajack 14y ago
SSL fixed now, thanks :D

Alan01252 14y ago

https://statuscoder.com/418 https://statuscoder.com/418 Thanks you made me smile. :) Can I ask you what your motivation for this project is?

ajack 14y ago
A part of our core app at work pulls in data from a remote source and the other day the remote server was giving a 502. When I came to test it, everything was fine again but I fixed the problem and wanted to see how it reacted again to a 502. I thought it'd be nice to have something where I could specify a status code and get that code back.
- smoyer 14y ago
  This is a great idea ... Thanks for sharing your test rig. Obviously this can't really be ad supported so maybe a network of us could donate bandwidth if it becomes an issue.

nigma 14y ago

Also http://httpbin.org/ http://httpbin.org/. It can handle more test cases and the source code is on github.

prodigal_erik 14y ago

I'm not very familiar with X-Frame-Options and X-XSS-Protection headers. Do they actually do anything for errors or empty responses, or does this stack just add them by default?

nja 14y ago

This is pretty cool! I'm just disappointed that 420 doesn't say Enhance Your Calm, but then again, you're not Twitter https://dev.twitter.com/docs/error-codes-responses https://dev.twitter.com/docs/error-codes-responses