HTTP Status as a Service: A quick and (maybe) dumb idea
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Status.icu is a simple product I built to solve a problem I was having while running some automated headless browser tests. I was also looking to have some fun with CSS Grid and building a product landing page.
The problem: In my test environment, I’m making http requests to urls based on data from Faker. Imagine a profile page that displays a profile picture based on an email address — like <img src="https://gravatar.org?email=fake.name@fake.com"/>.
When your automated browser hits that page, you obviously don’t want it to make a request to gravatar.org. With status.icu, you can prepend that url and get back a simple 200. It can look like this: <img src= "https://status.icu/200https://gravatar.org?email=fake.name@fake.com" />. Now your automated tests won’t be littering logs on 3rd party URLs.
On-demand HTTP status codes might also be useful when rapidly prototyping an API or testing out responses to different HTTPs statuses.
Status.icu supports blindly returning a variety of status codes, including 201, 404, 422, and 500.
Is this useful to anyone else? Let me know in the comments!
