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Techorama 2015: RequestBin

Always great to discover the tools that other people use during their presentations. It are these moments that make visiting a conference worthwhile and allow you to earn your money back big time!

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During Techorama 2015, one of the speakers was using RequestBin:

RequestBin gives you a URL that will collect requests made to it and let you inspect them in a human-friendly way.
Use RequestBin to see what your HTTP client is sending or to inspect and debug webhook requests.

It’s the perfect solution when you want to see what’s send to the server but are not able to trace and inspect the HTTP requests on the server.

Click on the Create a RequestBin button:

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Copy the generated url into your HTTP client (like curl for example). Execute a call:

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And check the results on the RequestBin website:

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Nice!

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