Httpreq is a free website to test, log HTTP requests. Here it creates an endpoint for you and then you can use that to send HTTP request from different devices and applications to test them. The website logs all the requests made to your endpoint. And you can see the time when the request was made and shows you the detailed head of the HTTP request. And if there was any GET or POST content then it shows you that as well. You can use this website without creating an account. And it will keep the log of HTTP request for 30 days and after that it will destroy the data..
While creating an application or a bot, you may want to test its HTTP request making behavior. Setting up a local environment to test that will be quite a tiresome process and that is why you can take help of this simple tool. When you visit this website, it gives you a link to a dedicated endpoint that you can use to test the HTTP requests. By default, you can export the log that it creates. But if you want that then you can try saving the web page as PDF to save the HTTP requests log to your PC.
How to Test, Log HTTP Requests?
Testing and logging HTTP requests using Httpreq is very simple. As I have mentioned that you don’t need an account to use this service. Just go to its homepage and then it will create a recording bucket for you. You can copy its URL and then use that to see the log of all the HTTP requests that you have created so far.
You can use curl or any other HTTP requests making library and then issue a HTTP request. While making a request, you can specify some post content as well. And it will record that all. In the requests log, you can see a lot of details. If you make requests from a browser then it will record IP, Operating system, device like details and will show them to you. You can see the following screenshot.
In this way, you can use this simple online tool to test and log HTTP requests. And it does that very beautifully. It separates each HTTP requests by the time at which is was issues. You can analyze the header of the requests and then do whatever you like. And if you want to save the log then you can simply print the page and save it as PDF.
Final words
Httpreq is very nice tool for developer and programmers to test HTTP request from a lot of applications quickly. The log that it crates can be used to study the behavior of the bots and other networking related applications. So, if you are looking for a simple tool to text HTTP requests for free and then you can use Httpreq. And this post will help you in getting started with it.
