/web/null eats your HTTP

tome · on Nov 9, 2011

I'm sure it's a useful tool, but if it keeps stats, then it's definitely not analogous to /dev/null!

jondot · on Nov 9, 2011

@tome, sure but stats are very useful as a practical tool. @charliesome, one use case of this, is to deploy it (lets say on ec2), on lets say webnull.myhost.com, and point any webservice / client you wish to its http visible domain. You gain a handy tool that fakes http reliably, readily-deployed for any experiment.

JshWright · on Nov 9, 2011

Why not hit the little 'reply' link?

haileys · on Nov 9, 2011

Looks handy, although I usually just use netcat in a loop for this.

geraldalewis · on Nov 9, 2011

I usually use example.com for this.

... I should probably stop spamming them.

wgx · on Nov 9, 2011

Example.com is an IANA domain, reserved for testing and documentation purposes. So, you're not spamming them.

http://www.iana.org/domains/example/

bryanlarsen · on Nov 9, 2011

From RFC 2606: "reserved for use in private testing, as examples in documentation, and the like."

So using example.com is not bad, and a lot better than other commonly used names like test.com.