| Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. [message #185688 is a reply to message #185681] |
Wed, 30 April 2014 16:49   |
Daniel Pitts
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On 4/30/14 7:28 AM, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:56:57 -0700, Daniel Pitts wrote:
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>> I am very familiar with testing methodologies and technologies. Just
>> most of my recent experience was with Java, where it's relatively easy
>> to start a mock http server in a separate thread. Not as easy in PHP.
>> I'm asking about Mock HTTP servers. Not about testing.
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> What do you want your mock http server to do? It probably isn't going to
> be able to sit on port 80 without privs, assuming nothing else is on port
> 80 already.
I don't need it to listen on port 80. I actually would prefer it didn't.
It probably would be best if it listened on some random port in
user-space.
> Does it need to do more than open a listening port on
> localhost, listen for some packets, send responses depending on the
> requests? I believe php comes with a basic http server, perhaps you could
> adapt that to your needs?
That actually might be a suitable solution for my immediate need. I'll
take a look at it. Thanks for the helpful suggestion!
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