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A simple, minimal express service for testing and debugging CDNs, load-balancers and proxies, as a safe, known backend.
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A simple, minimal express service for testing and debugging CDNs, load-balancers and proxies, as a safe, known backend. It will return all HTTP data sent to it.
There is a public instance running on dummy.now.sh
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Warning: This will reflect everything that is sent to it, including potentially your authentication/authorization secrets. Please take care not to leak anything sensitive.
With Dummy Service there are a couple of special-case headers which alter the behaviour of the service.
Dummy-Status
: This overrides the status-code returned by a given call. Defaults to 200. (e.g. return a 403)Dummy-Response
: This overrides the response body returned by a given call. Otherwise will return all headers and cookies in a JSON blob. (e.g. return an error page)Dummy-Delay
: This adds a delay (in microseconds) in the processing of the response, useful for testing a stalled origin. Defaults to off.Dummy-Cache-Control
: This overrides the cache-control header returned. Defaults to private
to prevent caching.FAQs
A simple, minimal express service for testing and debugging CDNs, load-balancers and proxies, as a safe, known backend.
The npm package dummy-service receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, dummy-service popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that dummy-service demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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Philipp Burckhardt recounts his journey from childhood computer fascinations, to building an e-learning platform at Carnegie Mellon University, and on to his current role at Socket.
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