Waithook — Testing WebHooks Behind the Router

was build to ease receiving HTTP notifications in development and testing environments. It uses to deliver messages, so it can work behind firewall, network routes and proxy. Waithook.com WebSockets Testing HTTP notifications from other services is hard, normally I would setup some SSH tunneling from my computer to remote server or use some public service to do that. And especially hard to make such setup on CI server each time it runs tests. So I came up with idea of a service: clients will connect using protocol, my service will receive HTTP requests and send to all subscribers. Think of it as Pub/Sub for HTTP callback. It works great when more then one developers use it at same time or your tests run in parallel, because all subscribers receive all messages. WebSocket I find it useful for: Testing integration with payment systems Testing /GitLab webhooks GitHub Testing incoming email processing Testing slack bots Testing facebook webhooks How to use it You need to choose your unique prefix, change notification URL in sending service to (the service that will send you HTTP notifications, such as payment system, incoming emails, etc). http://waithook.com/$your_unique_path It can also send http request to other URL, for example your staging server. To do that, just add in endpoint URL. Example: ?forward_url=http://example.com http://waithook.com/foobar?forward_url=http://foobar.com/ Then you should open WebSocket connection to , for details you can see online demo or use ruby library : waithook.com/foobar waithook-ruby gem install waithookwaithook waithook.com/foobar --forward http://localhost:3000/notify Now you can try sending request to and it will send same request to Yay! http://waithook.com/foobar http://localhost:3000/notify Waithook is free and . I’m making it for fun and using at my work for testing webhook processing from payment systems. In my tests I open new connection every time I expect HTTP callback coming to my system and wait until I got a correct message, in this way I can test a full flow. open source I would be glad to hear any feedback from you! Happy coding! is how hackers start their afternoons. We’re a part of the family. We are now and happy to opportunities. Hacker Noon @AMI accepting submissions discuss advertising &sponsorship To learn more, , , or simply, read our about page like/message us on Facebook tweet/DM @HackerNoon. If you enjoyed this story, we recommend reading our and . Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted! latest tech stories trending tech stories