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JSONPlaceholder – Fake online REST API for developers

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/25

A great way for testing REST JSON calls is using the [WayBack] JSONPlaceholder – Fake online REST API for developers:

Fake Online REST API for Testing and Prototyping
Serving ~200M requests per month
Powered by JSON Server [WayBack] + LowDB [WayBack]

It is like [WayBack] Placeholder.com: Placeholder Images Done For You [JPG, GIF & PNG] but for JSON and supports both CORS and JSON-P for cross domain requests.

You can either use that site (which has a predefined set of REST calls) or the basic [WayBack] My JSON Server – Fake online REST server for teams that allows you to respond it to a db.json file from github:

Fake Online REST server for teams

Create a JSON file on GitHub

github.com/user/repo/master/db.json
{
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "hello"
    }
  ],
  "profile": {
    "name": "typicode"
  }
}

Get instantly a fake server

my-json-server.typicode.com/user/repo/posts/1
{
  "id": 1,
  "title": "hello"
}

Related

Documentation

There is basic documentation at the repository [WayBack] GitHub – typicode/jsonplaceholder: A simple online fake REST API server:

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, REST, Scripting, Software Development, TCP | Leave a Comment »

Insomnia REST Client

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/12

[WayBack] Insomnia REST Client  A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

Source code at [WayBack] GitHub – getinsomnia/insomnia: The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴.

Via: [WayBack] Paw is nice – The Isoblog.

–jeroen

 

 

Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, REST, Scripting, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

SSH through HTTPS

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/04

Often, hotspots only allow http/https traffic. Other traffic – like SSH – is blocked. Nowadays, fewer hotspots block that, but too many still do.

So it can be worth a while to route your SSH server through HTTPS (I don’t like Web-based SSH that much as terminal emulation in browsers isn’t that well yet, but that seems to change rapidly, more on that in the “Further reading” section below).

After some background reading at apache – Tunnel over HTTPS – Stack Overflow, here are a few links that help you do it:

Server side: DAG: Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S).

You need:

  • An internet connected Apache server (eg. with IP address 10.1.2.3)
  • A FQDN that points to this IP address (eg. ssh.yourdomain.com)
  • A virtual host configuration in Apache for this domain (eg. /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssh.yourdomain.com.conf)
  • A configuration to adapt ssh to use the HTTP tunnel

Read more at DAG: Tunneling SSH over HTTP(S) and SSH over SSL, a quick and minimal config..

Client side: Using SSH over the HTTPS port · GitHub Help.

Steps:

  1. Test of it works at all
  2. Edit your local ~/.ssh/config file to redirect SSH to HTTPS

Read more at Using SSH over the HTTPS port · GitHub Help.

Using Putty and an HTTP proxy to ssh anywhere through firewalls | Me in IT.

the Digital me: SSH Tunneling Proxy using Putty on Windows and Linux (Unblock YouTube / Orkut / Facebook).

Tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies using HTTP Connect – ArchWiki.

HTTP Tunneling – ArchWiki.

Running SSHD on port 443.

Not all proxy configurations and hotspots support this. But it might be worth a look: SSH Over Proxy.

Further reading: Web-based SSH.

SSH plugins for browsers:

Web based SSH:

–jeroen

Posted in Communications Development, Development, Encryption, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Security, SSH, TCP | Leave a Comment »

Redirect Detective – A Free Tool To Trace Where Redirects End Up

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/27

Cool tool, but be aware it does aJavaScript:xmlhttpPost from , so your data can be logged [WayBack] Redirect Detective – A Free Tool To Trace Where Redirects End Up.

For http://www.xs4all.nl/~jp, it shows these redirects (where in bold I’ve listed the changes):

Oh and it runs this call: JavaScript:xmlhttpPost("/linkdetect.px")?word=www.xs4all.nl%2F%7Ejp from [WayBack] redirectdetective.com/ajax.js.

Note that this shows more redirects than the plain http ones, so wget from [WayBack] wget – How do I display all URLs in a redirect chain? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange shows this:

$ wget http://www.xs4all.nl/~jp 2>&1 | grep Location:
Location: https://www.xs4all.nl/~jp [following]
Location: https://jp.home.xs4all.nl/ [following]

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Power User, TCP, wget | Leave a Comment »

Links to alternatives for Delphi REST clients

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/13

A few good links to a few alternatives for the built in Delphi REST client [WayBack] Hi looking for good and complete tutorial/course how to create RESTFul services with Delphi. Or if anyone use Delphi for creating RESTFul services feedb… – Gordan Paunovic – Google+

–jeroen

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