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gsscoder
gsscoder

Reputation: 3392

Create Http Request for testing purpose

I need something quite different from question with similar subject.

I'm wondering if exist a .NET library that creates a real http request stream (obviously in parametric way). This is not for ASP.NET or other web framework, I want a raw stream of bytes (not mock objects of various http contexts).

I have intentionally omitted fake from the question title, because I need a real http request but I do not want a component that sent it over the network.

[note by ebohlman]: If I read you correctly, a clearer way of putting it is "... creates a simulated http request stream (at the raw-byte level) based on supplied parameters ..."

Basically I should be able to (it follows pseudo-C#):

[Fact]
void Parse_http_request_headers() {
  HttpRequest req = HttpRequestBuilder.Create(HttpMethod.Get, "http://someserver/app/etc/etc");

  HttpParser parser = new HttpParser(req.ToByteArray());

  parser.Method.Should().Be("GET");
  parser.Scheme.Should().Be("http");
  // Remainder omitted
}

I just want to know if someone already created something like this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 241

Answers (1)

Jim Mischel
Jim Mischel

Reputation: 133975

One way to do this would be to create a program that uses TcpListener to capture and save the request stream. Run it on your local computer.

Then, in a separate program, create a regular HttpWebRequest and send it to the program that's listening. The listener saves the stream to a binary file, and you now have a request stream that you can examine.

Upvotes: 1

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