HTTP Mirror Server

Part of the Miscellaneous Features category. Also documented in context in the full Component Reference.

The HTTP Mirror Server is a very simple HTTP server - it simply mirrors the data sent to it. This is useful for checking the content of HTTP requests.

It uses default port 8081.

Name	Required	Description
Port	Yes	Port on which Mirror server listens, defaults to 8081.
Max Number of threads	No	If set to a value > 0, number of threads serving requests will be limited to the configured number, if set to a value ≤ 0 a new thread will be created to serve each incoming request. Defaults to 0
Max Queue size	No	Size of queue used for holding tasks before they are executed by Thread Pool, when Thread pool is exceeded, incoming requests will be held in this queue and discarded when this queue is full. This parameter is only used if Max Number of Threads is greater than 0. Defaults to 25

Note

Note that you can get more control over the responses by adding an HTTP Header Manager with the following name/value pairs:

Name	Required	Description
X-Sleep	No	Time to sleep in ms before sending response
X-SetCookie	No	Cookies to be set on response
X-ResponseStatus	No	Response status, see HTTP Status responses, example 200 OK, 500 Internal Server Error, ….
X-ResponseLength	No	Size of response, this trims the response to the requested size if that is less than the total size
X-SetHeaders	No	Pipe separated list of headers, example: `headerA: valueA

You can also use the following query parameters:

Name	Required	Description
redirect	No	Generates a 302 (Temporary Redirect) with the provided location, e.g. ?redirect=/path
status	No	Overrides the default status return, e.g. ?status=404 Not Found
v	No	Verbose flag, writes some details to standard output, e.g. first line and redirect location if specified

Related

• Plugins Essentials
• Full Component Reference
• Functions and Variables