Show HN: Statuscoder, easily get any HTTP status code for testing

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Post by ajack » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 7:53 PM UTC

I recently wanted to test how a part of a web app responded to a 502 HTTP status code from a remote site from which it was pulling data. When I came to test it, the remote site was working fine, but I still wanted the 502. So I created statuscoder, just append your desired status code to the URL and it'll respond with that code.

http://statuscoder.com

It's my first single-use project and I like its simplicity - it does one job and (hopefully) does it well. Is there anything else that you'd want to see it do?

Show HN: Statuscoder, easily get any HTTP status code for testing
statuscoder.com

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Post by mcpherrinm » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:10 PM UTC

Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate.

Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm...

I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.

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Post by spicyj » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:11 PM UTC

mcpherrinm wrote: post #2

Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate. Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm... I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.

Works fine in Chrome on my Mac.

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Post by ElliotMingee » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:13 PM UTC

mcpherrinm wrote: post #2

Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate. Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm... I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.

Works fine on Chrome 19 with Windows 7

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Post by ajack » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:16 PM UTC

mcpherrinm wrote: post #2

Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate. Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm... I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.

Oops, didn't pick up on this - it works fine on my machine (without adding exception). I've removed the non-ssl redirect while I get it sorted. Thanks for the heads up :)

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Post by Alan01252 » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:23 PM UTC

https://statuscoder.com/418

Thanks you made me smile. :) Can I ask you what your motivation for this project is?

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Post by mcpherrinm » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:24 PM UTC

ajack wrote: post #5

mcpherrinm wrote: post #2

Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate. Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm... I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.

Oops, didn't pick up on this - it works fine on my machine (without adding exception). I've removed the non-ssl redirect while I get it sorted. Thanks for the heads up :)

Intermediate certificates are easy to mess up, and they don't always show up for everyone as a problem.

Just thought I'd help out!

Test with `curl' is where I noticed it broken -- seems to work in Chrome, possibly because they cache intermediate certificates or something?

~% curl 'https://statuscoder.com/ curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

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Post by ajack » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:32 PM UTC

Alan01252 wrote: post #6

https://statuscoder.com/418 Thanks you made me smile. :) Can I ask you what your motivation for this project is?

A part of our core app at work pulls in data from a remote source and the other day the remote server was giving a 502. When I came to test it, everything was fine again but I fixed the problem and wanted to see how it reacted again to a 502. I thought it'd be nice to have something where I could specify a status code and get that code back.

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Post by smoyer » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:36 PM UTC

ajack wrote: post #8

Alan01252 wrote: post #6

https://statuscoder.com/418 Thanks you made me smile. :) Can I ask you what your motivation for this project is?

A part of our core app at work pulls in data from a remote source and the other day the remote server was giving a 502. When I came to test it, everything was fine again but I fixed the problem and wanted to see how it reacted again to a 502. I thought it'd be nice to have something where I could specify a status code and get that code back.

This is a great idea ... Thanks for sharing your test rig. Obviously this can't really be ad supported so maybe a network of us could donate bandwidth if it becomes an issue.

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Post by ajack » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 8:49 PM UTC

mcpherrinm wrote: post #2

Bad SSL configuration on this server. Looks like it's missing an intermediate certificate. Instructions for the site owner are here: http://www.alphassl.com/support/install-root-certificate.htm... I'm not adding an exception to view it, and non-SSL redirects to SSL.

SSL fixed now, thanks :D