REST Echo Service
Posted by Roy Triesscheijn on 23rd March 2011
Today I was working on a JAVA program that had to send GET requests to a RESTFul webservice. For debugging purposes I wanted to make sure that my program send the key-value pairs in such a way that PHP (and other web scripts) would understand it. Of course I could c/p the output URL and check it by hand, but errors can creep up easily that way.
The script (really 3 lines of PHP and a few lines of HTML) echos all the GET key-value pairs so that you can easily check if everything is alright (for example check if the URLEncoding worked) .
To use the scrip just navigate your program to http://roy-t.nl/services/RESTEcho.php.
In your application you should see output like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>REST GET echo service</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This simple PHP script will output all the get variables which where sent in the last HTTP request.
</p>
<p>
GET variables received: <br/>
</p>
Array
(
[MyKey] => MyValue
)
</body>
</html>
Of course you can also try it from your browser.
Anyway, have fun with it, it’s just tiny debugging tool that saves you the 5 minute trouble of firing up your own host and typing three lines of PHP.
Tags: ECHO, GET, JAVA, Key-Value Pairs, PHP, REST, RESTFul, URLEncoding, Variables
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