memoryhttpd

memoryhttpd is an in-memory HTTP server. Resources can be added by using PUT. It supports multiple hosts.

For example:

``` $ curl -v http://localhost:3000/foo/bar/ -H Host:example.com -X PUT -d 'hello world'

PUT /foo/bar/ HTTP/1.1 Host:example.com Content-Length: 11

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK < x-memoryhttpd-action: set < content-length: 11 < date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:32:07 GMT < hello world $ curl -v http://localhost:3000/foo/bar/ -H Host:example.com GET /foo/bar/ HTTP/1.1 Host:example.com

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK < content-length: 11 < date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:33:22 GMT < hello world $ curl -v http://localhost:3000/foo/bar/ -H Host:example.net GET /foo/bar/ HTTP/1.1 Host:example.net User-Agent: curl/7.85.0 Accept: /

< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found < content-length: 0 < date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:33:28 GMT < ```

Commands

Set a value:

``` PUT /full/path HTTP/1.1 Host: hostname Content-Length: 5

value ```

Get a value:

GET /full/path HTTP/1.1 Host: hostname

Delete a value:

DELETE /full/path HTTP/1.1 Host: hostname

Set with an expiration (in milliseconds):

``` PUT /full/path HTTP/1.1 Host: hostname X-Expire-ms: 30000 Content-Length: 21

value expiring in 30s ```

Use cases

acme challenges

memoryhttpd can be used to store temporary tokens. For example using it as a backend for /.well-known/acme-challenges/ for a reverse proxy.

Mirrors

This repository is mirrored on:

• https://codeberg.org/acatton/memoryhttpd
• https://github.com/acatton/memoryhttpd