Response Formats¶

The default response format is text/plain. you can change this behavior by sending an Accept header with one of the following values:

text/html¶

curl -H "Accept: text/html" -H "User-Agent: Agent Awesome" "httpconsole.com/agent"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
...
<body>
...
<pre>Agent Awesome</pre>
</body>
</html>

Note

The HTML example here is trimmed to save space, to view the output, just visit any of the API endpoints with your web browser.

text/plain¶

curl -H "Accept: text/plain" -H "User-Agent: Agent Awesome" "httpconsole.com/agent"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

Agent Awesome

application/php¶

curl -H "Accept: application/php" -H "User-Agent: Agent Awesome" "httpconsole.com/agent"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/php

a:1:{s:10:"user-agent";s:13:"Agent Awesome";}

application/xml¶

curl -H "Accept: application/xml" -H "User-Agent: Agent Awesome" "httpconsole.com/agent"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<response><user-agent>Agent Awesome</user-agent></response>

application/json¶

curl -H "Accept: application/json" -H "User-Agent: Agent Awesome" "httpconsole.com/agent"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/json

{"user-agent":"Agent Awesome"}

API Reference¶

/ip¶

Returns Origin IP

curl "httpconsole.com/ip"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

159.33.10.155

/agent¶

Returns user-agent.

curl -H "User-Agent: Agent Awesome" "httpconsole.com/agent"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

Agent Awesome

/headers¶

Returns the request headers

curl -H "User-Agent: Agent Awesome" "httpconsole.com/headers"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

Host: httpconsole.com
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Awesome Browser

/status¶

Returns given HTTP Status code.

Parameters:

/status/:code/:reason

Key	Format	Default	Description
:code	`[0-9]+`	200	HTTP Status Code
:reason	`[a-zA-Z0-9 %_-]+`	OK	HTTP Status Reason

curl "httpconsole.com/status/505/Hello World"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 505 Hello World
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

Hello World

/delay¶

Delays responding for n seconds.

Parameters:

/delay/:seconds

Key	Format	Default	Description
:seconds	`[0-9]+`	1	number of seconds to wait before sending a response

curl "httpconsole.com/status/505/Hello World"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 505 Hello World
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

Hello World

/redirect¶

Redirects n times.

Parameters:

/redirect/:code/:count

Key	Format	Default	Description
:code	`301\|302\|303\|307`	302	HTTP Status Code
:count	`[0-9]+`	1	number of times to redirect

curl "httpconsole.com/redirect/302/5"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain
Location: http://httpconsole.com/redirect/302/4

/text¶

Returns the text message passed in the URL

Parameters:

/text/:message

Key	Format	Default	Description
:code	`[a-zA-Z0-9 %_-]+`	Hello World	Text message to return

curl "httpconsole.com/text/Hello"

Response:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 18:39:48 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain

Hello

HTTP Console¶

HTTP Console is a free HTTP debugging service with multiple endpoints to help test and debug HTTP operations clients with various Response Formats:

try it out:

curl "http://httpconsole.com/request"

refer to the API Reference for a full listing of all possible end-points.