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  Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-04-29 10:23 -0700
    Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-29 14:51 -0400
      Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-04-29 13:24 -0700
        Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-29 16:39 -0400
          Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-04-29 16:56 -0700
            Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-29 20:08 -0400
            Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-29 20:11 -0400
              Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-04-29 17:35 -0700
                Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-29 20:50 -0400
                  Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-04-30 09:40 -0700
                    Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-30 13:35 -0400
                    Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-30 20:46 +0100
                Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-04-30 00:00 -0700
                  Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-04-30 09:46 -0700
                    Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-04-30 19:59 +0200
            Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 14:28 +0000
              Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-30 11:34 -0400
                Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 01:47 +0000
                  Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-30 22:37 -0400
              Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2014-04-30 09:49 -0700
                Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-04-30 13:38 -0400
                Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-04-30 19:41 +0200
    Re: Mock HTTP servers for unit tests. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-01 13:54 +0200

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#13482

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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>

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?
>
> That actually might be a suitable solution for my immediate need.  I'll
> take a look at it. Thanks for the helpful suggestion!
>
>
>

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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#13483

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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
> 
>> 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?
> 
> That actually might be a suitable solution for my immediate need.  I'll
> take a look at it. Thanks for the helpful suggestion!

The InterNations http-mock already uses PHP's internal webserver--so
probably you can save yourself work by using the mocking functionality
already built around it.

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Christoph M. Becker

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#13488

Daniel Pitts wrote:

> I'm developing some code which makes http requests from PHP. I'd like to
> be able to Unit Test my code as smoothly as possible.
> […]
> Things I need:
>     * Ability to validate a specific request was made, with a specific
> set of Headers.
>     * Ability to provide a "mock" response, and validate my code can
> handle it.
> 
> Things I really want:
>     * Ability to send parallel requests (think curl_multi), and validate
> the requests are made in parallel.
>     * Ability to delay one response for a specific amount of time, but
> have another response return earlier.

PHP 5.4+ and “php -S $TEST_HOST:$PORT your_handler.php”, perhaps with the
“-c” and/or “-d” options, should suffice.  

Depending on the header fields you need to read, and the PHP version you 
have available, you might need to use a different server.  
apache_request_headers() is available in the CLI server since PHP 5.5.7.

I have verified that the CLI server of PHP 5.5.11 can handle several 
requests made at approximately the same time (as expected):

,----
| $ echo '<?php echo $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] . "\n";' > server.php
| $ php -S localhost:1337 server.php
| Listening on http://localhost:1337
| Document root is /home/****/scripts/php/test
| Press Ctrl-C to quit.
`----

In another terminal:

,----
| $ GET http://localhost:1337/foo & GET http://localhost:1337/bar
| [1] 19301
| /bar
| $ /foo
| [1]+  Done                    GET http://localhost:1337/foo
`----

[“GET” is symlinked to lwp-request(1p), a Perl-based command-line tool to 
make HTTP requests.  The “$” in-between is only the client's shell 
interfering with the server output; you will not see it if you use a PHP 
client like curl_multi().  Note that apparently reading the server script 
from a FIFO is not possible; you need to create a real file.]

<http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php>
<http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.php>
<http://php.net/apache_request_headers>
<http://php.net/sleep>


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