Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
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Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#2Seems like a useful tool; thanks for sharing it!
Two questions:
1) What's the diff logic? At first glance, it looks like JSON is reformatted (maybe canonicalized in some way) and then a line-by-line diff is applied. Is there more to it? Since the tool seems JSON-aware, I was surprised to see an added trailing comma up as a difference.
2) Do you have plans to expand the kind of HTTP requests users can make? It would be nice to use different verbs, headers, and request bodies. Runscope has a similar tool[0] built in that I believe (haven't tried it yet) allows a bit more flexibility, but it would be nice to have a standalone tool available.
[0] http://blog.runscope.com/posts/comparing-http-requests-using...
Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#3This would be useful behind a firewall. Is the source available?
Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#4This 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!
Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#5Reminds me of Diffy, a tool Twitter is using to algorithmically diff test their HTTP-based services.
https://blog.twitter.com/2015/diffy-testing-services-without...
Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#6For command-line junkies:
diff https://httpbin.org/get) https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1)
Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#7Seems like a useful tool; thanks for sharing it! Two questions: 1) What's the diff logic? At first glance, it looks like JSON is reformatted (maybe canonicalized in some way) and then a line-by-line diff is applied. Is there more to it? Since the tool seems JSON-aware, I was surprised to see an added trailing comma up as a difference. 2) Do you have plans to expand the kind of HTTP requests users can make? It would b…
Great questions:
1) the diff is really simple, line by line and text based. I'm just using this really awesome library to do it: https://github.com/kpdecker/jsdiff The JSON is just being pretty printed to be able to do a text diff in a meaningful way.
2) Yes, I do, and thanks for the suggestions! But I just wanted to go with the minimal version first and see if people found it useful.
I didn't know about Runscope's diffing feature. Btw, I'm using a HTTPBin for the sample requests, which is a Runscope project as far as I know :)
Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#8Good 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...
Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#9This is very cool! Looking forward to it being open source (also, things from Barcelona rocks ;) )
For people wanting to have a CLI tool instead, John Graham-Cumming's httpdiff might be worth looking at. https://github.com/jgrahamc/httpdiff
Re: Requestdiff – Send two HTTP requests and visualize any differences
#10For command-line junkies: diff https://httpbin.org/get ) https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1 )
Actually this is closer still to the output. Requires colordiff:
diff -u https://httpbin.org/get) https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1) | colordiff