| Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. [message #185690 is a reply to message #185688] |
Wed, 30 April 2014 17:38   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/30/2014 12:49 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> 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.
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Any of the existing servers out there can do that.
>> 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?
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> 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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The http server which comes with PHP is quite limited; good for quick
code tests, but not something I would use for anything beyond short scripts.
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