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Asked: 2026-05-23T07:01:11+00:00

I am developing a software which will be communicating with a server using HTTP

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I am developing a software which will be communicating with a server using HTTP (but it is not a web browser). Since the server part is not ready yet, I would like to debug my client software by sending HTTP messages to it. I know that I can send HTTP requests using Curl. But I am not sure if that is sufficient here.

I’m imagining an environment where I send a request from my application, check that it is correct using Wireshark and then reply to the request using some software. Using Curl, I think I would have open a listening port..?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’d use a simple node.js server for this. You can write your own HTTP server in a few lines of code an simulate various return codes, response headers or response entities easily: http://nodejs.org/

    PS: There are proxies that simply print out the HTTP messages. This might be helpful for you too, because you don’t have to deal with WireShark anymore just for HTTP-level logging.

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