A Simple Python Web Server to Echo Back HTTP Request Headers and Data
This could come in handy for testing your web app's webhooks and more.
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Timestamps:
0:00 -- What we'll be covering in this video
0:21 -- Testing webhooks is one use case for using this tool
1:08 -- Taking a quick peek at the Python code to make it work
1:33 -- Sending a basic GET request with curl
2:41 -- Sending a POST request with a JSON payload using curl
3:35 -- A quick aside to send JSON data from a file with curl
4:30 -- Sending a POST request with form data using curl
5:22 -- Connecting to the web server from a Dockerized web app
8:39 -- It's up on GitHub along with documentation
9:01 -- Using ngrok to make the web server accessible on the internet
Reference links:
https://github.com/nickjj/webserver
https://ngrok.com/
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