A fake server than catch all path and response success message or whatever data you defined.

Usage

python -m fake_server -t Success!

Then you can access whatever path in 'http://127.0.0.1' (such as http://127.0.0.1/simple/a/b/c), and then get response text 'Success!'.

All arguments:

python -m fake_server -t TEXT -f FILE_PATH -fc FILE_PATH -b 127.0.0.1:80 -s

SERVER ARGUMENTS

• -b --bind IP:PORT: Server bind host and port, default 127.0.0.1:80, if you what listen on all interface just use 0.0.0.0:80
• -p --port PORT: Server bind port, same as port in --bind
• -s --https: Server with https or not

RESPONSE ARGUMENTS

You can only choice one argument for response

• -t --text TEXT: Return text, default Success
• -f --file FILE_PATH: Return file as attachment
• -fc --file_content FILE_PATH: Return file content

Why you need this?

When you notice some software send your private data to their server(like: http://data.old_server.com ), and the software need success response from server(like: {"result": "success"}), what can you do? Now ,with fake_server, you can do like this:

1. Add this line to your hosts file (Linux/macOS: /etc/hosts, Windows: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts)

127.0.0.1 data.old_server.com

2. Start fake server: python -m fake_server '{"result": "success"}'

Then all data send to data.old_server.com will now send to your own compute, and software will get normal response as before!

TODO

• To real command line tool as fake-server;
• Support https