I need a simple web server with a console - http-headers

My problem is I am adding an Ajax client to an existing RPC web service. i have a PHP client that talks to it, a java jibx.POX client that talks to it, a pure java http client that i wrote that talks to it, everything. but when i try to put my jquery ajax client im working on at it, the server sees the connection, but doesn't receive any data. same on the response, the service sends its error response xml and the ajax client says nothing came back.
what i need to debug this is a simple web server. i want something that is a stand alone program. where i can enter a port number and a start button. point my ajax interface to it, and it displays in a text area all the information possible on the request. then i can point one of my other interfaces to the same port and compare the two and hopefully figure out why 4 interfaces work and 1 doesn't.
does that exist out there somewhere? maybe in one of your arsenals somewhere.

OOPS, never mind, i found one. TCPMon, its a java system a friend of mine emailed me a while ago. does exactly this.
thanks

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Request not hitting spring boot embeded server through tomcat and browser

Am trying to hit my rest API in spring boot with the embeded server configured through browser and postman, but the request doesn't hit the server and am getting 404-not found am pretty new to springboot , please help me in this as in what to check further so that i can test my rest API
This could be due to couple of reasons
Try the following
Ensure the port you are specifying is correct
Ensure the end point you are specifying exist
Ensure the request you are sending is of correct REST action type (GET,POST etc)
Ensure your controller class is available in the same package in which Application class (with #SpringBootAnnotation) exists, else you will have to use #ComponentScan to make sure your controller class is scanned and endpoints available to receive traffic
Most likely, above should help :) If not, you'll need to describe what is done in the application so far

Cleint not receive response: “No handlers could be found for message type”

I have a .net core service that needs to send a request via nservicebus.
I resolve IMessageSession with DI and send a request like this:
var response = await messageSession.Request<CreateDeviceResponse>(request);
In the logs I see that another service received this request and send a reply:
The problem that I never receive a response.
Client receive such errors:
I know that such an issue can occur if the client and server endpoint names are same, but I checked and I use different names
asp net mvc 4.7.2
First of all, the message isn't lost, but in the error queue.
I suggest to follow the tutorial to understand how NServiceBus works and what you need to have in place where. The tutorials start here but an entire learning path starts here and it explains broader, including about general concepts and architecture.
Like #tchelidze mentions, you need to have an implementation of the IHandleMessages<CreateDeviceReponse> interface, like is outlined here in the tutorial. Also, it doesn't matter to which endpoint you send it to. EndpointA can send to both EndpointB and EndpointA. What you cannot do is have two endpoints with the same name. It's like having two computers with the same name called MachineA and then from MachineB try to access files on MachineA. Which of the two should MachineB connect to? There is something else called 'competing consumer pattern', but that's of later concerns ;-)
If you need more help, feel free to ask at https://discuss.particular.net/ where more NServiceBus community members are located, as well as engineers of NServiceBus itself.
For some reason, it helped to make a request inside a task:
Task.Run(async () => await messageSession.Request<CreateDeviceResponse>(request))
I still not understand what is the problem, but it works only with such implementation.
In .net core web API, it works even without Task.Run, so I believe it has something to do with the fact that I am making this request in asp net mvc 4.7.2

Silverlight ClientHttp Stack / windows authentication / and RIA services issue (I'm guessing it's a cookie thing)

I was investigating how to get status code 500 error messages to give me more information when these occur and happened upon the MSDN post about using the ClientHttp stack.. Which was all just so magical seeming until the application got deployed on the staging servers and it seems to completely fail now with authentication
I'm guessing this is due to the whole cookie issue as it relates to the ClientHttp stack...
I'm using RIA services and when the application starts it runs 3 or 4 RIA WCF service calls preloading data in the background and now with the new ClientHttpStack an authentication dialog pops up pretty much every single time a request is made. We're using Windows Authentication so before it would just make you authenticate in order to access the page serving the XAP file... But now you login with Win Auth and then all the subsequent calls repetitively ask for your credentials...
I'm assuming the only way I can fix this is by doing this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd920298(v=vs.95).aspx
And then possibly adding an endpoint behavior onto the DomainClient so that before requests are handled it tacks on the cookies...
I've tried doing this for a bit now and I'm not really succeeding... When I run the app in FF or Chrome it still pops up with a whole bunch of login boxes. So I'm just curious if I'm barking up the wrong tree or if I should continue trying to figure out where I'm not quite propagating the cookies through
If you are using the ClientHttp stack, you'll need a place to store your cookie client side, said a HttpCookieContainer. It's just a wcf behaviour to be inserted in the ClientHttp stack. Please, have a look at this post from Kile McClellan and see if it helps you.

REST API Works in Browser, But Not Client

I am developing a REST API, and have found a very interesting problem.
When I access the resources in a web browser (in my case Chrome), everything works fine. However, when I access the resources using a REST client (Google Chrome plugin, web-based client, and a Java applet), NONE of the variables pass to the API. This happens both with GET and POST methods.
I have absolutely no idea why this would be the case, and it's proving very difficult to test the methods before putting them into production (especially with POST methods).
Please help!
At first glance it sounds it could be 2 things:
You are not correctly passing API parameters via your client or
applet
A problem with authentication or cookie management. Does the API require any type of authorization?
Are you forgetting to set a necessary HTTP header?
Do you have control of the API also or is it a third party API? If so, do the params arrive at all or do they arrive empty? What's the error code? - a 403 not authorized (which would make sense if the key doesn't pass) or something else due to missing params.
Try the intermediate step of doing it with CURL form the command line - that'll give you more detail on what's coming back.

Strategies to block an external webservice to simulate "down" during for a testing scenario?

I am working to integrate data from an external web service in the client side of my appliction. Someone asked me to test the condition when the service is unavailable or down. Anyone have any tips on how to block this site temporarily while we run the test to see how the service degrades?
For those curious we are testing against Virtual Earth, but Google Maps but this would apply to any equally complicated external service.
any thoughts and suggestions are welcome
Create some Mock-Webservice class or interface (and inject it). In there, you could test the response of your system to webservice failures and also what happens, if a web-service request take longer than expected or actually time-out.
DeveloperWorks article on mock testing: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-mocktest.html
You need to be sure to test the most common failure modes for this:
DNS lookup fails
IP connection fails (once DNS lookup succeeds)
HTTP response other than 200
HTTP response incomplete or timeout
HTTP response 200 but RPC or document returned is invalid
Those are just a few common failure modes I could think of that will all manifest themselves with different behaviors that you may wish to have your application handle explicitly.
If you set up a computer between the caller and service that routes between them, you can simulate each of these failure modes distinctly and modify your application to handle them.
How about blocking the domain name(s) in question by putting a nonsense entry into the hosts file?