httplog

Simple node app to log http request right into your console.

Installation

Run the following to install httplog globally on your system.

npm install -g @floriandorau/httplog

After that run httplog --help to see how it works.

How it works

Use the following command to start a local http server running at port 8080.

httplog --port 8080

You can now redirect your traffic to the started http server. Your request data will dumped into your console.

Full commands

Usage: httplog [options]

Simple tool to log http requests into your terminal

Options:
  -V, --version             output the version number
  -p, --port <port>         Port where to listen for incoming requests
  -f, --file <file>         Pipe http request to <file>
  -r, --response <file>     Provide a mock response from <file>
  -b, --browser             Pipe http requests to your preferred browser
  -n, --ngrok               Exposes httplog to the public internet using ngrok
  -d, --debug               Enable debug logging
  --proxy-mode <host:port>  [BETA] Runs httplog in a proxy mode where incoming request will be forwared to "host:port"
  -h, --help                display help for command

Options

file

Use this option to log incoming requests into a file, e.g.

httplog --port 8080 --file requests.txt

ngrok

Use this option to make your httplog server available over the public internet, e.g.

httplog --port 8080 --ngrok

With the above command the port 8080 will be exposed using the ngrok service.

browser

Use this option to log incoming requests in your browser, e.g.

httplog --port 8080 --browser

reponse

Use this option to mock response status and data, e.g.

httplog --port 8080 --response ./response.json

The response.json file should look like the following

{
  "status": 200,
  "type": "json",
  "data": {
    "Foo": "Bar"
  }
}

The response file will be read with every incoming request which means that you can modify the file content to change response behavior without restarting httplog process.

Currently json and text are supported response types. If no type is present text will be used as default.

proxy-mode [Beta]

Use this option to make httplog acting as a proxy, e.g.

httplog --port 8080 --proxy-mode localhost:8081

With this each incoming request at port 8080 will be forwarded to port 8081 too.