httpbin

httpbin is a service to test HTTP client implementations. We are going to use it extensively to see examples of code.

The service is quite reliable, but it isn't always available, but luckily the developer provides it as a Docker container as well.

So if you have Docker installed on your computer you can run the service locally.

Run httpbin locally

Start as:

docker run --rm -p 80:80 --name httpbin kennethreitz/httpbin

Then run the code:

cargo run localhost

To stop the Docker container open another terminal and execute

docker container stop -t0 httpbin