Pause

Purpose

I often need a mock web service to simulate a remote resource that takes an arbitrary amount of time to execute. This is often used while performance testing to represent a remote web service. This project provides such a mock.

Install it

Install node:

brew install node

Install node dependencies

npm install 

Run it

node app.js [options]

Options

• -p port specify the port on which to listen
• -d delay specify the default duration, in milliseconds, for the service to wait before returning
• -c content specify the default content to use on the response http body
• -s status specify the default http status to use on the response

Consume it

A simple usage of it would be:

> curl -i http://127.0.0.1:8888
HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
X-Powered-By: Express
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:02:48 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Query params that you can use on the request:

• delay specify the duration, in milliseconds, for the service to wait before returning
• content specify the content to use on the response http body
• status specify the http status to use on the response