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Show HN: Osapy - an API proxy to visualize HTTP request for debugging

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Today I use ngrok for this and it works brilliantly:

    $ ngrok http https://myapp

and then I can point my clients at <random domain>.ngrok.io and inspect the request contents locally. How does this compare to that?

Hi, It can do the same, but no installation or registration required.

"Hosted on AWS" is gonna backfire on you. This basically opens you up to people misusing it to drive traffic costs for you and you end up paying a lot of money for it.

Better to find a host where you're not paying for traffic and you can have a dedicated host.

Yeah.. it's just to get started and see if anyone finds it useful.

How is it different from https://requestbin.com/ ?

You don't need to log in. Otherwise very similar.

Just saw you can have a non login version. Thanks for pointing this out. Will add more features soon

...or https://hookbin.com

Is hookbin using websockets for live publishing of the requests? It says you need to refresh the website.

It does not, however I have zero problems hitting cmd+r when I’ve made the request.

One aim of the tool is to make it as easy and simple as possible to use, but thank you for sharing the link.

It looks like Osapy acts as a proxy to an arbitrary destination server. Requestbin and similar tools are for receiving and saving HTTP requests, but not proxying them out to somewhere else. So that's an important difference.

Although I'm having trouble getting it to work. Seeing the same token error others are reporting.

If you're looking to be more professional with less work, I would suggest using https://tailwindcss.com/ to spruce up the overall look! Site is nice btw, will use in the future.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

For client debugging I usually just use the network inspector or Charles (https://www.charlesproxy.com/). But I guess this might be useful for server to server API call debugging

Yes Osapy is for server-server debugging AND you don't need to install anything

I've been frustrated with building API integrations and struggling to track down API call issues via Postman, e.g. what does a raw request really look like or where are my headers ending up. Interested to see if anyone finds this useful.

When I hit my private URL, I receive "Missing Authentication Token".

My URL ends with // so I wonder if I'm not getting my auth token? Total guess as to the URL structure here.

Hackernews is sending a lot of traffic my way and in your case the server shows that it's struggling. Need to fix tomorrow.

Please try again later.

Can't you do exactly that by looking at the network inspector in any browser and then right click "Copy as curl"?

I think depends on the use case. If you just want to test a backend API, e.g. to call ERP/SAP API or a Google API I'm not sure how you can do that.

{"message":"Missing Authentication Token"}

Which API are you trying to call ? This doesn't look like one of my error messages.

I assume the example numbersapi that is loaded by default.

I got the same thing. Leaves me wondering what to do next. It's not clear, then I figured I'll try this curl command, then an error and still nothing obvious to try next.

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