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Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

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Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

#11
post #8

Good work but frankly this would be useful if it was: (1) Terminal based (2) Supported other types of HTTP requests (3) Supported request body (4) Allowed editing request headers (5) Wasn't so easily exploitable to be used as a proxy or a DDoS relay (server-side bummer): http://requestdiff.com/proxy?url1=https://www.amazon.com&url...

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Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

#14
post #4

This would be useful behind a firewall. Is the source available?

Not yet, but I'm planning to open source it later today. I will reply here with the Github link. Glad that you found it useful!

Awesome, waiting for the Github repo!

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

#16
post #8

Good work but frankly this would be useful if it was: (1) Terminal based (2) Supported other types of HTTP requests (3) Supported request body (4) Allowed editing request headers (5) Wasn't so easily exploitable to be used as a proxy or a DDoS relay (server-side bummer): http://requestdiff.com/proxy?url1=https://www.amazon.com&url...

(6) Support encodings other than utf-8.

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

#18
Wonderful.

Just the other day I needed something similar and was disappointed that I could find it.

I wanted to discuss something with a remote colleague and to illustrate it I wanted a visual diff of two files. I was hoping there was a nice little web app offering this but I was forced to screenshare (I could have terminal-shared but it was more hassle).

I was hoping for something like Etherpad but with a live visual diff.

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

#19
Comparing URLs comes up from time to time here on Hacker News and at one point inspired me to write a tool that batch compares pages visually:

http://www.productchart.com/blog/2015-07-19-urldiff

It renders a set of pages in a headless browser, compares them visually and alerts you if something changed.

Just a few lines of bash as you can see. But it turned out to be pretty useful. UrlDiff is a regular part of our regression testing at Product Chart now.

Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences

#20
post #4

This would be useful behind a firewall. Is the source available?

Not yet, but I'm planning to open source it later today. I will reply here with the Github link. Glad that you found it useful!

Great, thank you.
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